Unusual animals of our planet. Photo selection of unusual animals. A miracle of nature - a fish with a transparent head
The variety of shapes, colors and sizes of creatures inhabiting our planet surpasses even the richest imagination. We are pleased to present to you the most unusual animals in the world. Some of them look like characters from a science fiction movie about Mars, others seem to come from another dimension, but they all live on Earth and were created by Mother Nature.
25. Octopus Dumbo
The funny octopus opens the hit parade of amazing creatures. He lives on great depths(from one hundred to five thousand meters) and is mainly engaged in searching for crustaceans and worm-like creatures on the seabed. Its name, reminiscent of a baby elephant with big ears, the octopus received thanks to two unusually shaped fins.
24. Darwin's Bat
Creatures from the pipistrelle family are found in the waters around Galapagos Islands. They are terrible swimmers and have instead learned to navigate the ocean floor on their fins.
23. Chinese water deer
This animal has earned the nickname "Vampire Deer" for its prominent tusks, which are used in battles for territory.
22. Star-nosed
The small North American mole gets its name from the circle of 22 pink, fleshy tentacles at the end of its snout. They are used to identify starfish food (worms, insects and crustaceans) by touch.
21. Aye-aye
This photo shows one of the most unusual animals in the world called “aye-aye” or “little arm”. This native of Madagascar is distinguished by its unique method of foraging; it knocks on trees to find larvae and then chews holes in the wood and inserts an elongated middle finger to pull out its prey.
20. "Living Stone"
Pyura Chilensis are living, breathing organisms found on Chilean beaches. Their appearance allows them to avoid predators. Interestingly, these creatures have both male and female organs and can reproduce without the help of a partner.
19. Pacu fish
Freshwater fish with human teeth are found in rivers in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, as well as in Papua New Guinea. A nightmare for local fishermen who are afraid to swim in the water because pacu confuse male testicles with nuts falling from trees into the water.
18. Drop fish
One of the strangest animals in the world. From the appearance of this creature, one can say that it is despondency incarnate. Lives in deep waters off the coast of Australia and Tasmania.
The blobfish lives in the depths and its flesh is a gel-like mass with a density slightly less than that of water. This allows the “dull” creature to stay afloat.
17. Eastern long-necked turtle
These turtles can be found throughout Australia. Their remarkable necks can reach a length of up to 25 cm.
16. Surinamese pipa
The leaf-like appearance of the Suriname pipa is a natural defense against predators. These toads have a unique method of reproduction: the female lays eggs and the male simultaneously releases sperm. The female dives down and the eggs fall onto her back, into the cells, where they remain until the time comes for the young peeps to be born.
15. Yeti Crab
In the “hairy” claws of this crustacean that lives in the depths of the southern part Pacific Ocean, contain many filamentous bacteria. They are needed to neutralize toxic minerals from water and, possibly, serve their host as food.
14. Bearded man
These beautiful birds They live on Everest, the Himalayas and other mountainous areas in Europe and Asia. They were almost destroyed because people were afraid that bearded men would attack animals and children. Now there are only 10 thousand of them left on Earth.
13. Pike blenny
They live in the waters of west coast America, can grow up to 30 cm in length and have intimidatingly large mouths. Their pike blennies show each other as if they are kissing. Whoever has the biggest mouth is more important.
12. Decorated Tree Serpent
Many people's nightmare comes to life: a snake that climbs trees and then jumps down. Before jumping, the reptile curls up into a spiral, and then sharply turns around and rushes into the air. In flight, it stretches out and lands smoothly on a lower branch or other tree. Fortunately, flying snakes do not pay attention to people, they are more interested the bats, frogs and rodents.
11. North American kakimitsli
This cute animal from the raccoon family is native to the arid regions of North America. Cacomitsli are so easy to tame that miners and settlers once kept them as companions and gave them the nickname "miner's cat."
10. Striped Tenrec
Lives only in tropical forests Madagascar. The tenrec is somewhat porcupine-like, and the quills on the central part of the back can vibrate. With their help, animals locate each other.
9. Pink sea cucumber
He looks like a character from a science fiction film, but in reality he is a harmless creature. And it looks more like a jellyfish than its fellow sea cucumbers. Around its red mouth are tentacles that dig up edible mud from the bottom of the sea. From there it enters the creature's intestines.
8. Rhinopithecus
Famous TV presenter and naturalist David Attenborough once remarked that these amazing monkeys with their stub noses and blue “mask” around their eyes look like “elves.” Or, looking at them, you can say that “plastic surgery has gone too far.” Rhinopithecus lives in Asia, at altitudes up to 4000 meters and is rarely seen by humans.
7. Mantis crab
Colorful stomatopod or mantis crab conducts most their lives hiding in holes. Capable of breaking through the walls of aquariums by moving at speeds of up to 80 km per hour. During mating displays, mantis crabs actively fluoresce, and the wavelength of the fluorescence corresponds to the wavelength that the pigments in their eyes can perceive.
6. Panda Ant
Among the most unusual animals on the planet is a furry creature with the coloring of a panda. In fact, this is not an ant, but a wingless wasp that lives in South America. It is very similar in appearance to an ant, but, unlike it, it has a powerful sting.
5. Leaf-tailed gecko
Master of disguise originally from Madagascar. Thanks to its leaf-shaped tail, it can fit into the interior of the local jungle.
4. Gerenuk
It's hard to believe that this long-necked cutie is not a mini-giraffe, but a real African gazelle. In order to reach high branches, the gerenuk lacks only the length of its neck. You still have to stand up on your hind legs.
3. Chinese giant salamander
It can grow up to 180 cm long and weigh up to 70 kg. If you are in China and see such a creature in a local pond, then know that the water in this reservoir is very clean and cold.
2. Angora rabbit
It looks like the result of an experiment on crossing a Bigfoot with a kitten. Angora rabbits were extremely popular in the 17th and 18th centuries among European nobility. They were not eaten, but kept as pets.
1. Goblin shark (aka goblin shark)
Number one in our top 25 strange creatures along comes a rare shark, sometimes called a “living fossil.” It is the only surviving member of the family Scapanorhynchidae, with a pedigree of about 125 million years. Goblin sharks live all over the world at depths of more than 100 m, so they are not dangerous to swimmers.
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How many amazing creatures live with us on the planet! We know very little about some of them, and for some, acquaintance with humans becomes fatal, since after the discovery of some species of animals they began to exterminate them. And yet, we hope that the rare and amazing animals of planet Earth, which will be described in the article, will remain an adornment of our world for a long time.
named ay-ay
In Madagascar, there lives a creature that is classified as a prosimian - the aye-aye or the aye-aye. This is the most amazing animal in the world and, moreover, the rarest in number (only 50 individuals). When the researcher Pierre Sonner first discovered it, he decided that it was a rodent, since the teeth of the arm are very similar to those of a squirrel.
The animal grows up to 44 cm, but its fluffy tail grows much longer than its body - up to 60 cm. And the most amazing thing about the little arm is the middle fingers of its forelimbs. This is something the animal cannot do without.
With it, the little arm cleans its fur, drinks water (after dipping its finger in it and then licking it) and, most importantly, obtains food. She taps the bark of the tree with her finger and, having found a suitable place, gnaws the bark. Then the little hand lowers its finger into the hole in order to prick the larva onto the claw and send it into the mouth. In captivity, even after receiving a bowl of sweet syrup, the little hands turn it over, gnaw a hole in the bottom, and then drink the syrup using their irreplaceable finger.
Tarsier - owner of the largest eyes
Some researchers believe that the most amazing animals in the world are tarsiers. The appearance of these crumbs is amazing. Their body length does not exceed 15 cm, but their eyes are 16 mm in diameter. If such proportions were translated into human height, then our eyes would be the size of an apple! 
The tarsier can rotate its head almost 360°. And animals are able to communicate using ultrasound. These tiny primates are nocturnal, hunting insects, while they deftly jump onto a branch, throwing back their hind legs like a frog. And long fingers with flattened pads help them hold on and not fall.
The snapping turtle is a dinosaur that has survived to this day.
We are accustomed to the fact that turtles are slow and harmless creatures, but the vulture turtle will force us to change our established opinion. Outwardly, this most amazing animal in the world looks like a dinosaur that has survived to this day. And her character is not honey! 
This inhabitant of US freshwater rivers can grow up to 1.5 m and weigh 80 kg. It is decorated with a “beak”, very similar to the beak of the bird of the same name, and on the tongue this creature has a small, constantly moving process, very similar to a worm. By the way, it is used by the turtle to catch it by burying itself in the mud and opening its mouth.
The turtle's shell is crowned with three saw-like bone ridges, and the tail is only slightly shorter in length than the crocodile's. If we add here the numerous warts that cover its neck and chin, as well as the algae covering its shell, then the appearance of the snapping turtle is very unattractive. But she can survive underwater for 50 minutes and has very sharp eyesight.
Blob fish
The depths of the ocean are home to many bizarre and little-studied creatures. And the blobfish, an inhabitant of the deep sea, can easily be classified as “the most amazing animal in the world.” This gelatinous, sedentary lump actually only vaguely resembles a fish. And almost human dissatisfaction is completely surprising.
The body of the fish is only 30 cm long, it is devoid of scales and covered with mucus, and the massive head is decorated with a process similar to a drooping nose. The huge mouth of this “beauty” has lips twisted in a displeased and disgusted grimace.
The blob fish does not like to swim. Although her jelly-like body is lighter than water and can float calmly in the depths of the ocean, she more often just lies motionless on the bottom and patiently waits for all sorts of small creatures to swim into her mouth.
By the way, this sea blob incubates its eggs until fry emerge from them. And even after that, she continues to take care of them.
Copepod - the strongest creature on the planet
And in the water column live tiny blind crustaceans, whose body length does not exceed 10 mm - these are the strongest and 
Amazing world These multicellular organisms are being closely studied by Danish scientists. They found that copepods are capable of covering a distance of 50 cm in a second, which is five hundred times the body length of this creature. If a person had such capabilities, he could easily jump a kilometer! This is power! Copepods are 10 or even 30 times stronger than any animal and even a machine.
When jumping, copepods reach speeds of up to 6 km/h, and if these figures are translated into human parameters, it turns out that a person with a height of 170 cm could accelerate to a speed of 1000 km/h. Like this!
There are also spiders among the crabs
In the Pacific Ocean near the shores of Japan lives the most amazing animal in the world - the spider crab. It weighs almost 20 kg, and the size of its body together with its paws reaches 4 m. True, the body itself is only 35 cm. This crab is classified as a long-livers, it is believed that it can live up to 100 years! 
Our arthropod giant is so huge that if he wanted to walk along the shore, he could easily step over the van with vacationers. Fortunately, these crabs live only at a decent depth - up to 300 m. And only in order to lay eggs they rise to a depth of fifty meters.
By the way, if a spider crab loses one of its monstrous legs, then it grows back and becomes longer with each molt.
A miracle of nature - a fish with a transparent head
The most amazing animals on the planet have in their ranks and such a miracle as Creatures like her cannot be found in the whole world. Her head is covered with a transparent shell and filled with liquid inside. And the fish’s eyes are inside this “aquarium” and can only look up, in the same place where they should be; the fish’s nostrils are located. 
This unreal creature was discovered only in 1939, as it lives at great depths (up to 800 m). But only in 2004 were scientists able to study the life of this amazing animal in more detail.
They discovered that the fish, having seen an object suitable for hunting from below, becomes vertical, causing its eyes, which are in a special liquid, to turn, allowing it to take a closer look and then eat it.
We are accustomed to the murmur of spring streams, the rustle of leaves, we take for granted the beauty of flowers and are not in awe of the living creatures that are our neighbors on the planet. Now there are more than one million species of living creatures on Earth, some of which are so bizarre that it is difficult to believe in their existence.
Extinct animals
Unfortunately, many species of living beings have not survived to this day, and the fact that they once lived on Earth is evidenced only by the miraculously preserved remains of their skeletons. Some animals became extinct due to sudden changes natural conditions, and some were destroyed by us people.
The strangest animals that inhabited our planet in the past.
Racoscorpio
Imagine a scorpion whose body length reaches two and a half meters. It seems that such a creature could only exist in a horror film. But these terrifying monsters actually lived in the seas more than 200 million years ago. Cancer scorpions are unique not only for their size and terrifying appearance: scientists believe that they were one of the first living creatures to attempt to get onto land. These are the largest representatives of the order of arthropods that have ever lived on Earth.
Modern sloths cannot boast of large sizes, which cannot be said about their distant ancestors who lived in the Miocene jungle. An adult giant sloth, or megatherium, reached six meters and weighed about three tons. Due to its height, Megatherium could easily look into the second floor window. The remains of amazing creatures were first found in China in 1789: local residents explained to paleontologists that they simply stumbled upon the bones of an underground mole, which, as is known, dies as soon as the sun's rays fall on it. Giant sloths became extinct due to cold weather: the area of the jungle gradually decreased and the megatheriums no longer had enough food to support the life of their huge bodies.
Steller's cow, or seaweed, belongs to the genus of sirens and is no different from them in appearance. What makes this creature unique is its size and rather peculiar character. The body length of Steller cows reached eight meters, and their weight exceeded five tons. Cabbage fish were also distinguished by their docile, calm disposition: they were not at all afraid of people and trustingly swam up to them to get to know them better. This is what destroyed them. When these animals were discovered by the expedition of naturalist Georg Steller, people realized that the cabbage plant is several tons of tasty meat that even a child can get. Hunters said that these creatures were very strongly attached to each other: it was described how the male swam to the dead female for three days, which people pulled ashore. The discovery of Steller's cows took place in 1741, and the last representative of the species was killed in 1768.
Modern unusual animals
It’s not just the creatures that lived in the world many millions of years ago that amaze the imagination. Modern inhabitants of the planet are also distinguished by their originality.
We can say that lobe-finned fish managed to deceive humanity. After all, scientists believed that these creatures became extinct 70 million years ago. It was possible to restore the appearance of lobe-finned fish thanks to a few imprints of their skeletons. For a long time, lobe-finned fish were considered an extinct transitional link from fish to amphibians. Imagine the shock of biologists when, in 1938, live lobe-finned fish were caught in fishing nets near south coast Africa. Lobe-finned fish have rather unusual fins, reminiscent of underdeveloped paws, which allow them to briefly leave the water element and walk on land. Scientists explain that in this way they can feed on coastal plants and hide from large predators. These creatures have not changed over millions of years and are no different from their ancestors, who were the first to venture onto land.
This is one of the most amazing animals modern world. It is quite difficult to find a more peculiar creature than the echidna. Echidnas belong to the class of mammals and feed their young with milk, however, like birds, they lay and incubate eggs. Externally, echidnas resemble a porcupine: their body is protected by sharp quills, making it difficult to kill an echidna. Only experienced dingo dogs can cope with this task. Echidnas feed on ants and termites, which they hunt using their long, sticky tongue. They live only on the Australian continent and are one of national symbols Australia. Their image can be found on tourism products, T-shirts, coins and even on the Australian nickel.
The main attribute of a turtle, without a doubt, is its hard horny shell, which reliably protects it from predators. However, it turns out that not all turtles have a shell. The amazing soft-bodied cantor turtles that live in India lack such reliable protection, and their body is covered only with a thick layer of skin. The size of these turtles is amazing: they reach two meters in length and weigh about 50 kilograms. Since cantors do not have a shell, they spend most of their time buried in the coastal sand. Unfortunately, softshell turtles are currently endangered.
Narwhals are mammals belonging to the unicorn family. They live in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean. Externally, sea unicorns resemble killer whales, but have one unique feature. In male narwhals, one of the two upper teeth turns into a horn reaching two to three meters, twisted in a spiral. By the way, scientists have not been able to figure out why the narwhal needs a horn.
This animal destroys the existing stereotype that deer are cute, touching, harmless creatures. This type lives in China, has a very peculiar appearance: two fangs protrude from their mouth, the length of which reaches 2.5 centimeters. These fangs are used in the same way as antlers: with their help, male saber-toothed deer find out who has more rights to an attractive female. The diet of vampire deer is also quite unique: they feed not on grass and leaves, but on carrion
The pangolin may seem like an alien creature: it is covered with large scales that make it look like a giant fir cone. The Chinese even called pangolins carp dragons. But despite their resemblance to reptiles, pangolins belong to the order of mammals and are close relatives of cats, dogs and bears. Pangolins appeared about 70 million years ago and have remained virtually unchanged since then. Interestingly, in case of danger, pangolins curl up into a ball and can simply roll away from the predator threatening them. Pangolins are found in Africa and South-East Asia.
This is not a complete list of amazing creatures that live or have ever lived on our planet. You can study animals, birds and insects endlessly, discovering something new every day and never tired of being amazed at what miracles evolution is capable of, which once began with the random appearance of just one DNA cell.
Frilled armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus)
This amazing animal lives on the dry plains of central Argentina, covered with thorny bushes and cacti.
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Photo source: www.ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_Armadillo
Little hand (Daubentonia madagascariensis)
This mammal of the order of semi-monkeys of the family of bats can be found on the island of Madagascar. 
Photo source: www.animalsadda.com
Maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)
Any fashion model will envy the legs of this wolf. Thanks to such long limbs, the height at the withers of this wolf can reach 90 centimeters. This animal lives in the steppes of South America, and its long legs help the wolf to view the surrounding landscapes over the grass. 
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Tufted deer (Elaphodus cephalophus)
Native to southern China, this tufted deer is notable for its tusks. 
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A deep-sea octopus found at depths of up to 6 km. 
Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum)
This "rabbit" is the Patagonian hare and the fourth largest rodent in the world (after the capybara, beaver and porcupine). 
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Naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber)
This rodent lives in the savannas of African countries: Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. Mole rats live in colonies, which sometimes reach 300 individuals. The social structure of colonies is similar to that of social insects (ants, termites). The colony is headed by a female and several fertile males. The remaining individuals are workers. Animals of this species have an unprecedented life expectancy for small rodents - 26 years. 
Photo source: wikipedia.org
Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris)
This unusual dolphin, without a beak and with a flexible neck, lives in the Indian Ocean. 
Photo source: imgur.com
Gerenuk (Litocranius walleri)
This African antelope has an exceptionally long neck and legs. 
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Dugong dugon
This aquatic mammal is the only representative of the dugong family of the sirenian order. 
Photo source: wwf.org.au
Babyrousa babyrussa
An unusual feature of this animal of the pig family is its tusks. In males, the upper canines grow through the skin of the upper jaw, curving upward and backward. In old cleavers, their tips even grow into the skin of the forehead. 
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Fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)
The Fossa is a predatory mammal from the family of Madagascar predators. Previously, individuals of this species were mistakenly classified as members of the cat family due to their external resemblance to a puma. 
Starburst (Condylura cristata)
A North American mole with twenty-two star-shaped skin growths on its face. 
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Malayan woolwing (Galeopterus variegates)
A mammal of the woolly wing order, capable of flying from tree to tree over a distance of about 100 meters. 
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Zebra duiker (Cephalophus zebra)
A small artiodactyl of the bovid family, the height at the withers of which does not exceed 50 cm. The animal lives in West Africa. 
Photo source: imgur.com
The Kiwa hirsuta crab lives in the thermal waters of the South Pacific Ocean. The limbs of this representative of decapods are covered with bristles resembling fur. 
Photo source: oceanleadership.org
Wonderful bird of paradise (lat. Lophorina superba)
A bird of the passerine family that has fantastically unreal plumage. 
Photo source: nationalgeographic.com
The deep-sea fish Psychrolutes marcidus, found off the coast of Australia and Tasmania, is the most bizarre fish on the planet. 
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The largest freshwater soft shell turtle weighing 50 kilograms. This turtle lives in Southeast Asia. 
Photo source: Wikipedia.org
Gobi jerboa (Allactaga bullata)
One of the most poorly studied representatives of earth hares living in the Mongolian Gobi Desert. 
Photo source: www.ringdikit.wordpress.com
Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi)
This crab lives at depths of up to 800 meters above sea level. The crab weighs about 20 kg, and the length of the body including legs reaches 4 meters. 
Photo source: telegraph.co.uk
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Since childhood, we have been told about the amazing animals that inhabit our planet. The elephant is the largest land mammal on the planet, whose weight can reach 10 tons, the giraffe is the tallest animal in the world, it can calmly look through a fourth-floor window, the cheetah is the fastest animal, overtaking a car at short distances. We, of course, know about the amazing tiny hummingbirds that fly backwards, and about the swifts that can spend a year flying without rest. The chameleon is amazing - a lizard that easily changes the color of its body, adapting to the external background. But the world is huge, its diversity is impressive. In forests, steppes, the depths of the sea, high in the sky and underground there live such animals, birds and insects that many have never heard of. They are so amazing, as if they came from another world, sometimes it’s even hard to believe in their reality.
In this article we will look at the TOP 10 most amazing animals in the world.
1. Star-nosed
When you first look at this animal, it seems that you are looking at an alien creature. Instead of a muzzle, it has many movable red tentacles connected to form a kind of star (hence the name). The tentacles move and produce unpleasant impression. The star-nosed mole is actually a type of mole. The animal is harmless, lives in North America. Lives underground, feeds on worms, insects, larvae, and in times of famine does not disdain small fish and crustaceans. The skin growths around the nostrils are supersensitive organs of touch, with the help of which the starfish detects prey in a split second (!) and analyzes it for edibility. In one second, this animal is capable of studying 13-15 objects. The movements of its tentacles are so fast that the human eye is unable to catch them.
The second name of the animal is aye-aye. This is a completely unique creation. It is unlike any other animal in the world. There are only 47 little arms living on our planet! Therefore, the aye-aye is listed in the International Red Book and is under the close supervision of the global animal protection community. Although poachers are unlikely to be interested in aye-aye: it has neither valuable fur, nor valuable meat or fat.
The first hand was discovered in 1780 by explorer Pierre Sonner, who worked with an expedition to west bank Madagascar. Apart from the tropical forests of this island, little arms are not found anywhere else. The animals have a small body up to 40-45 cm long, covered with coarse dark hair with a thick undercoat (probably nature made a mistake when it settled an animal with such a warm coat in the tropical forests of Madagascar). A half-meter fluffy tail, a wide head with huge ears, a small muzzle with large round eyes and sharp teeth - this combination has baffled scientists. There is still no consensus on which family the aye-aye is more suitable for: rodents, primates or lemurs.
But the most amazing thing is that aye-ayes don’t have paws, but arms and legs with fingers! This fact was confirmed by scientists by studying the structure of the limbs of the arm. It is interesting that on the animal’s hands the middle finger seems to have shrunk, but it is with its help that the aye-aye performs the main functions: it obtains food and pushes it deep into the throat.
There is such a miracle in nature. The scientific name is smallmouth macropinna. It was only discovered in 1939 by Wilbert Chelman. It lives at great depths (up to a kilometer) in the northern waters of the Pacific Ocean. This small fish, up to 15 cm, would not have been noticed if not for one feature: it has a transparent head, inside of which bright green eyes float in liquid and the brain is visible. If you look at a photo of a fish, its eyes are “green leaves” inside the head, and what at first glance seems like the eyes of a fish are the olfactory organ. Moreover, the eyes always look up.
It is very difficult to study these amazing fish, because they live at great depths and die when the pressure changes, while the transparent head bursts and all the contents (brain and eyes) simply flow out.
Many, looking at this animal, will not agree that it is “the most amazing.” Either a beaver, or a muskrat, or an otter. Not quite clear. But the animal is truly amazing. Because it is a type of guinea pig! But it weighs up to 65 kg! The Indians respectfully called the capybara “lord of the herbs.” The giant rodent is the only one of its kind on our planet. He is harmless, good-natured and phlegmatic, and loves watermelons very much. Many exotic lovers keep capybaras as pets. Gigantic Guinea pigs By the way, they have good intelligence, behave civilly, don’t shit anywhere, and cuddle up to their owners like faithful dogs. The main thing is to provide capybaras with a decent-sized body of water where they can swim and dive, because without water the animals will get sick and die.
Jellyfish are amazing creatures in their own right. Scientists have been studying them for a long time, and often make amazing discoveries. For example, jellyfish do not have lungs, but they breathe through the skin; they also do not have circulatory, nervous or excretory systems. Jellyfish don’t even have a brain, yet their behavior proves that these creatures think, but with what?
Jellyfish are perfect hermaphrodites; depending on the circumstances, the same individual can be either a full-fledged “girl” or a full-fledged “boy”. They can reproduce both sexually and by budding or division.
The venom of some jellyfish is one of the most powerful in the world; just a few milligrams can kill a person in a matter of minutes. All this is interesting. But scientists were shocked when in the mid-1990s they found out that the jellyfish Turritopsis nutricula is immortal!
It turned out that she is able to control her genes and turn back time: become younger, and then relive her years, and so on ad infinitum. A jellyfish, which doesn’t even have a brain, can do this! The great discovery was made by accident, but since then scientists have been researching Turritopsis nutricula, hoping to find a formula for immortality for humans.
This is a wonderful monkey that lives exclusively on the island of Kalimantan (or Borneo) in Southeast Asia. One of distinctive features proboscis - a large nose in males, similar to a cucumber hanging down. It was probably this monkey that inspired Wilhelm Hauff to write the fairy tale “Dwarf Nose”. It’s interesting that this nose grows throughout one’s life and in old nose-nosed people it hangs below the chin.
Another one characteristic these animals are absolutely white a long tail, similar to a thin hose. Considering that all the animal’s fur is colored reddish, the snow-white tail seems unnatural, as if it was sewn on artificially. Proboscis monkeys are also considered one of the most amazing animals on Earth because of this unusual contrast.
Have you ever seen a pig with a trunk? Do you think this doesn’t happen and only elephants have a trunk? But no! The tapir is an amazing animal, very rare, on the verge of extinction, and outwardly it looks just like a pig with a short trunk. By the way, like an elephant, a tapir grabs food with its trunk and puts it in its mouth.
The animal is large, weighing from 150 to 300 kg. Lives in Central and South America, in Southeast Asia. Lives in the forest, but only near bodies of water. It feeds on grass, leaves, fruits and berries.
The animal received the status of "most amazing" for its amazingly cute appearance. This miniature desert fox is from North Africa with huge ears and expressive eyes she is really beautiful. Looks like a small fluffy cat. They are happy to keep the animal as a pet. Fenechs successfully combine feline affection with canine friendliness. Playful, inquisitive, great with children.
A "World's Most Amazing Animals" list wouldn't be complete without the blobfish, an incredible creature that looks like a sad alien hybrid. It lives only in the deep sea off the coast of Australia and Tasmania. The fish resembles a large piece of jelly, it is really a gelatinous mass without muscles. The density of its body is less than that of water, so the drop fish is carried along by the current, and food - small invertebrates - gets into its wide-open mouth. Another amazing fact: after laying eggs, the blob fish sits on it and hatches eggs like a hen!
This small monkey lives in Southeast Asia. Amazing characteristics make it unique:
- each of her huge eyes is as big as her brain,
- The tarsier can turn its head almost 360 degrees,
- is 100% carnivorous: eats birds, lizards, snakes, bats,
- communicate using ultrasounds,
- jumping like grasshoppers.
The top 10 most amazing animals is complete. But he demonstrates far from full list unusual creatures in the world. It can be supplemented with dozens more individuals: a maned wolf with unnaturally long legs, a leaf-tailed Madagascar gecko that surprises with its skillful mimicry, a European proteus that reproduces once every ten years, lampreys that look like an alien from the horror movie “Alien” and many others.