An adult averages 5.5 inches long, though scientists have noted some tenrecs are as big as 6.8 inches. Not so. Beyond that, scientists dont know a whole lot about the giant beast or its habits, because most of what we know comes from their carcasses, which wash up on the shore. The hairy frog gets its name from vascularized, hair-like appendages that sometimes grow on males. Old cells hang around as we age, doing damage to the body. But that macabre fantasy creature turns out to have a real-life cousin. The wizarding worlds premier expert on animal life hits the big screen in North America on November 18with a menagerie of fantastical creatures in tow. A female Diamma bicolor, a species of wingless flower wasp, Real-Life Animal: Blue ant (Diamma bicolor), Size: Up to one inch (2.5 centimeters) long. by Delilah McCarthy Pretztail 4.1K 84 24 It's the end of the world. Female blue ants paralyze mole crickets with their stings and then lay their eggs on them, ensuring that the newborn larvae have a fresh meal. This property has 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and approximately 1,008 sqft of floor space. Even with exposure to the Internet, people will speculate that the photos have been edited or that the videos have been enhanced with CGI. Up until recently, it was believed a great white's lifespan was 25 to 30 years. 1: Nestrians have large eyes, with circular pupils. (Feb. 3, 2014) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/7868250/Tasmanian-Devils-rebranded-after-Warner-Bros-cartoon-ruins-reputation.html, Museum of Hoaxes. (Feb. 2, 2014) http://archives.dailynews.lk/2002/04/27/fea06.html, ScienceDaily. Sadly, this exotic creature may be in danger of disappearing, with a mere 20,000 existing in the wild [source: Okapiconsevation.org]. In fact, the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is so odd that when English naturalists first obtained a carcass for study in 1799 from New South Wales Gov. The Giant Squid, Architeuthis dux, is absolutely the stuff of nightmares. But as we revel in this biodiversity, we also should remember that many of the world's most incredible creatures are threatened by deforestation, climate change and other human-induced activities in the environment. From winged dragons and unicorns, to Bigfoot and the Chupacabra, we humans have imagined a vast menagerie of animals that don't actually exist. What animal is Obesey? Never miss a Moment Just to make things clear, this is not a real animal. Follow us on Twitter to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2012 Expedition / Flickr. A couple of years ago, an orphaned brushtail possum with a bright yellow coat arrived at the Boronia Veterinary Clinic in Melbourne. Sunday Observer. But it's actually a real animal, Sarcophilus harrisii, which is indigenous to Tasmania, an island to the south of the Australian mainland. Bombardier beetles outbursts pulse rapidly instead of going all at once. These differ from the hard spines that the tenrec uses for protection from predators. Real-Life Animal: Star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata), Range: Canada and the United States of America. (Find out more about how the bombardier beetle generates these explosions.). (Feb. 3, 2004) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110823180459.htm, Slifkin, Natan and Slifkin, Nosson. A giant prickly stick insect (Extatosoma tiaratum) at the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo. Dumbo octopuses use the fins on the side of their heads to swim, among other things. It has no tail! She lives in the Philly suburbs with her partner, her black cat, and towers upon towers of books. All rights reserved. It has two eyes, a beak, eight arms, and two feeding tentacles equipped with sharp-toothed suckers that can grab prey as much as 33 feet (10 meters) away. The giant squid (genus: Architeuthis), can grow to up to 43 feet (13 meters) in length, and weigh as much as a ton (907 kilograms). Check out some of our favorite bonkers-but-real animals below, and if you know of an another that seems like it cant even be possible, tell us about it in the forums, and keep the conversation going! Sea sapphires often cluster by the surface of the water, making the ocean appear studded with a galaxy of diamonds. Today's world if full of scandals by people misusing funds, abuse of power, and taking advantage of the . The goblin shark comes from an ancient line of sharks believed to have changed little in the last 125 million years. The saiga antelope looks like just another antelope if you start at the body. As for attracting dinner, this anglerfish uses its modified dorsal fin to lure in prey. Surprisingly, many of those stories are actually real even though they may be exaggerated. http://books.google.com/books?id=4ZTgX7BZXqoC&pg=PA172&dq=mountain+gorillas+legendary+creature&hl=en&sa=X&ei=N4R1UaSVI42z0QHL_IDQBA&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=mountain%20gorillas%20legendary%20creature&f=false, Dole, Nilma. nestrians grymps cute 19 Stories Sort by: Hot # 1 Ooops! While axolotls survive in aquariums, water tanks and research labs, scientists are still hopeful that axolotls haven't completely vanished in the wild [source: Associated Press]. See. While the star-nosed mole doesn't have great eyesight, it has another heightened burgling sense: touch. In the ancient world and right up through the Middle Ages, people told tales of monstrous giant reptiles called dragons, which sometimes sported bat wings and barbed tails, and wreaked carnage by breathing fire [source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]. In fact, bombardier beetles have a skill that even blast-ended skrewts dont seem to have: rapid-fire. April 27, 2002. 15 of the Strangest Animals in the World and Where to See Them. We tend to be so engrossed in fantasy creatures that we don't pay much attention to many of the 7.7 million different animal species that scientists estimate really live on our planet [source: Science Daily]. A flood is coming. A National Geographic team has made the first ascent of the remote Mount Michael, looking for a lava lake in the volcanos crater. Scientists found this strange creature at the Great Barrier Reefs Lizard Island and named it, aptly, the Christmas tree worm. Here are 10 weird animals you didn't know exist. How a zoo break-in changed the life of an owl called Flaco, Naked mole rats are fertile until they die, study finds, Why wetlands are so critical for life on Earth, Rest in compost? Birdlife.org. (Feb. 2, 2014) http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/platypus/, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But as it turn. Some 3,000 Phasmid species live worldwide. The Telegraph. This has diminished populations, and there are efforts to protect spider crabs from overfishing. Offer available only in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico). You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. We asked you to create your own ideal island, and you did not disappoint. He is about 6 years old and holds the record for being the tallest rabbit known to exist. The two cant breed to create a new hybrid animal, which debunks a common myth about their relationship. Tales of mermaids, a race of half-human and half-fish hybrids that live in the ocean are a common sailor's tale. Thanks to layers of honeycombed crystal plates inside their cells, they can wink from iridescence to invisibility in a matter of seconds. It uses those fins for steering while swimming freely about the deep ocean areas it calls home. According to Oceana, the international ocean preservation advocacy group, this shrimps punch is one of the fastest movements in the animal kingdomso much so, that its strong enough to break an aquariums glass wall. From pioneering the use of solar energy to helping to eradicating disease, here are just a few ways the 39th U.S. president has made the world a better place. Shea Gunther is a writer, entrepreneur, and podcaster living in Portland, Maine. All rights reserved. New AI may pass the famed Turing test. (Feb. 2, 2014) http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Ornithorhynchus_anatinus/, Animal Diversity Web. One of the most fascinating aspects of the box crabs life cycle is its mating habits, which literally redefine what it means to be swept off your feet. Which travel companies promote harmful wildlife activities? The young nestrian, Finny, and the young grymp, Leah, soon find themselves outside of the Ark when the Flood hits. Every weekday we compile our most wondrous stories and deliver them straight to you. Sign up for our newsletter and enter to win the second edition of our book. 2014. Looking like a cross between a rat and an octopus, the star-nosed mole is a good candidate for the title of world's weirdest-looking creature. 2002. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Slithery giant sea serpents have inhabited the nightmares of sailors since ancient times. The little sea slug can absorb the stings of the tentacles and store the toxins to use for its own protection. Despite the wide range of habitats, it is listed on the IUCN Red List as critically endangered, due to local people harvesting them for meat, accidental killing, and becoming bycatch in fishermen's nets. "How Devils Cry!" When you take all the living creatures in the world and mix in a healthy dose of time (measured in millennia), along with a strong shot of evolution, you get some bizarre life forms. His divine and human natures are completely distinct and separate. It's found near the Galapagos Islands and off the coast of Peru. The flip side of that coin is that the blowfish inflates itself, like Qwilfish, causing spikes to protrude from its body. And it has a special defense mechanism to keep predators from considering it as a meal. For Rent. Its so easy to miss the frogfish, because these types of anglerfish (there are over 50 species of them) are nearly identical to their surroundingsmostly coral reefs. University of Southern Maine. While they lack a Tapetum Lucidum, they still have good night vision due to the sheer size of the pupil and large amount of light that can be admitted. Klipspringer, eastern and southern Africa. (Though it looks like its nothing but head and tail, the tail is fused dorsal and anal fins.) The Japanese spider crab can reach 12 feet long if you count the leg span. In Scamander's telling, bowtruckles are stick-shaped insects that guard the trees that yield wood for magical wands. On average, a great white shark will live between 40 to 70 years. They can grow up to 13 feet in length and spend most of their time in deep waters near the seafloor looking for food. After her death, the gods transformed her into a creature called the ulama, or devil bird, whose horrible, human-sounding wail in the distance is a portent that something terrible is about to happen [source: Dole]. and clean themselves by having dust baths. "Oarfish Offer Chance to Study an Elusive Animal Long Thought a Monster." And theyre just the creepiest arachnids ever, which is quite an achievement. Svenna, They look like actual dinosaurs. 2013. However, an analysis in 2016 revealed that Dendrogramma isn't in a league of its own: In fact, it's a deep-sea genus of Cnidaria, the animal phylum that includes jellyfish, corals, and box jellies. The gerenuk's name comes from a Somali word meaning "giraffe-necked." 8 Things You Didn't Know About the Creepy-Cute Aye-Aye. Nightmare Fuel: Why Giant Prehistoric Insects Ruled Earth Before the Dinosaurs. "What in Hell is the Devil Bird?" Her size actually ended up saving her from the slaughterhouse, and she is the current greeter at the farm she lives on.There are many more large animals where this comes from. The most famous one on the list, the dodo was a small flightless bird that got extinct 100 years after its discovery. Peruvian blonde tarantula (Lasiodorides polycuspulatus) at the Great Plains Zoo. Its name means earth-wolf in Afrikaans and Dutch. Brawler9, I find all species all fascinating, but to me the one that blows my mind has got to be the axolotl. The existence of these animals have always been speculated, but thanks to the internet and the concept of going viral, people can confirm these animals are real. Nationalgeographic.com. It is the largest bony fish, at four meters or more! Jan. 29, 2014. Big Jake can also eat through one and a half bales of hay and 40 quarts of oats each day. This usually happens when food is scarceits believed that gulper eels usually eat crustaceans and other small marine animals. It stores its finds within cheek pouches until it reaches the surface and then uses the gravel to mash up the food for eating a platypus has no teeth. That's evidenced by one of my several pet dogs, a basset hound-pit bull mix named Madge, who has a huge fearsome looking head and powerful jaws, attached to a long body with stubby legs. Looking something like a boss from an old school Nintendo video game, the star-nosed mole lives in eastern North America and makes use of its strange flanged face to feel its away around the tunnels it digs. Cocaine Bear takes the real-life animal - affectionately named Pablo Eskobear - and uses the ridiculous premise to turn it into a killing machine. According to the Nestorians, Christ essentially exists as two persons sharing one body. Instead, its a solitary flower wasp that parasitizes mole crickets. In the Harry Potter world, the horklump is an animal that resembles a mushroom, and few mushroom-shaped animals have proved as mysterious, and controversial, as Dendrogramma. With a leg span nearly a foot wide, the Goliath birdeater is the world's biggest spider. Contents Dingiso Komodo Dragon Giant Squid Golden Lion Tamarin Axolotl Giant Oarfish Okapi Platypus Devil Bird Tasmanian Devil 10: Dingiso Twitter. To find food, the aye-aye taps on trees to locate buried insects and then gnaws a hole in the wood so it can reach in with its long, skinny fingers to grab the tasty treat. The Nestrian (Nestri primus) is a mammal from Two by Two film. Read This Next: Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, Which Is Somewhat Disturbing, Researchers with the Census of Marine Zooplankton first discovered the squidworm in 2007 during a cruise in a remotely operated vehicle some 1.8 miles underwater. These animals can sniff it out. (Feb. 2, 2014) http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/170779/dragon, Harrison, John. This freshwater species lives in ponds, lakes, and rivers throughout Asia. (Feb. 2, 2014) http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Sarcophilus_harrisii/, Arkive. The squidworm uses these to collect debris falling from the open waters above, known as marine snow.. Real-Life Animal: Titanoboa cerrejonensis. Theyre a type of crustacean known as a copepod and run just a few millimeters longsquee! In the 1950s, ornithologist George Morton Henry, author of a definitive volume on the birds of Sri Lanka, decided that the devil bird actually was the spot-bellied eagle owl (Bubo nipalensis blighi)[source: Eberhart]. Before joining Pop Mech, Courtney was the technology reporter at her hometown newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. I'm ashamed to admit I *just* realized a hornbill is a type of bird and not just a mean nickname Nala came up with. Range: Waters off southeastern Australia, between 1,310 and 3,280 feet (400 to 1,000 meters) deep, Size: Disk up to 0.7 inch (1.7 centimeters) wide; stalk up to 0.3 inch (0.8 centimeter) tall. This variety communicates through vibrating one dorsal section of quills called sounding quills. Theres no other snail in the world armored like the Crysomallon squamiferum, which lives over hydrothermal vents deep in the Indian Ocean. While they appear to be blue and white through and through, the sea slug often floats on its backside to improve its camouflage. Scientists have designated the vampire squid as a completely separate animal, even though it has eight arms and two tentacles. This semiaquatic, fur-covered, duck-billed, web-footed mammal that lays eggs seems to have been assembled from bits of other animals. Set in the Genesis flood narrative, Dave is a Nestrian, a brightly coloured aardvark-like creature whose only skills seems to be making comfortable nests and secreting a foul-smelling cloud of blue gas whenever he gets emotional. 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Lets nerd out over them together. Raw: Giant Squid Makes Rare Appearance in Bay. It was only discovered a little over a decade ago, back in 2007, but the curious sea cucumber has a survival tactic that points to its longtime evolution: bioluminescence to ward off predators. This gives the fish the unofficial title of worlds ugliest animal. In the Harry Potter novels, the blast-ended skrewt is the product of a breeding experiment gone wronga crablike creature that smells of rotten fish and can explosively blast its enemies. Arkive.org. This is a phenomenon known as countershading. All rights reserved. 2023 Atlas Obscura. The aye-aye is a species of long-fingered lemur found on the island of Madagascar, and it lives more like a woodpecker. A shrimp that punches so hard and fast that the water boils around it? It's up to us to save them. Curators are realizing that returning looted artifacts isnt closing museumsits opening new doors. (Feb. 3, 2014) http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Okapia_johnstoni/, Animal Diversity Web. The male tufted deer, found in China and Myanmar, sports a pair of terrifying fangs that seem ready for a vampire movie. Subscribe to our channel: http://goo.gl/9CwQhg. Their shapes, colors, and sizes vary spectacularly: Timema cristinae, a stick insect native to North America, is only half an inch (1.3 centimeters) long, while Phryganistria chinensis Zhao, found in China in 2014, is a staggering 24.6 inches (62.4 centimeters) long. Britannica.com. The males have venomous spurs on their rear ankles! La_Belle_Gigi, When it comes to birds, its definitely the frigate bird. Yes, you read that correctly, this little guy is related to elephants. 5 Pages. But I feel like the hairy frog deserves some loving. Keep Reading: 7 Incredible Octopus Facts That'll Make You Love Cephalopods. whale The craziest part about this is that Ludo is only 17 months old and hasnt stopped growing yet.Big Jake currently holds the record as the tallest horse. But in 1873, scientists got their first inkling of a real-life creature that resembled this one, when a Newfoundland fisherman caught a large tentacle-laden sea animal inadvertently and sold it to an amateur naturalist, the Rev. This particular specimen, Platybrachium antarcticum, flies through the deep Antarctic waters hunting the shelled pteropods (another type of snail) on which it feeds, according to the Marine Census of Life. tell us about the most shocking and unbelievable animals theyd ever heard of, look to the shadows for fantastical beasts. Some might think the Tasmanian devil is a fictional creature, cooked up by an imaginative animator for the Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" shorts. Scientists know more about space than the .css-3wjtm9{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.125rem;text-decoration-color:#1c6a65;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:inherit;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-3wjtm9:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;}ocean, according to Columbia Universitys Earth Institute. Zeus was a Great Dane who weighed about 155 pounds and stood about 44 inches tall. / Wikimedia Commons. Once revealed as a whale, Obeseys moss falls off and reveals his flippers, dorsal fin, and tail. No purchase necessary. World's Deadliest: Is This the World's Weirdest-Looking Killer? Pretty metal. laurelkastner, PEACOCK SPIDERS ARE AWESOME. The okapi was first brought to the attention of the Western world in the late 1800s when explorer Henry Morton Stanley mentioned it in one of his popular travelogues. Animalia reports that when tufted deer run, they do so in an S pattern, making it harder to get caught. Noah Is Gone. Having a rabbit like Darius can also be pretty costly since his owners are spending well over 2,000 pounds per year to keep the rabbit fed.Your average house cat can also be a contender as one of the largest animals. Of course verifying the existence of these animals can be solved with a simple visit or researching the local newspaper archives. The 'extreme cruelty' around the global trade in frog legs, What does cancer smell like? Its super-senses also make it a lethal hunter. An alien? Unfortunately, he didnt live to see his 6th birthday, and his life span was much shorter than the average Great Dane.Next, we have the tallest bunny, whose name is Darius. The nose and head quickly change that perception with a hooked snout, making it look more like a camel mixed with an elephant. You can bet that Ludos owners, the Gill family, probably doesnt share the bed with their large feline. Real-Life Animal: Bombardier beetles (Subfamily: Brachininae). Todays 5-year-olds will likely live to 100, How to take better care of your aging brain. "Sacred Monsters: Mysterious and Mythical Creatures of Scripture, Talmud and Midrash." So in a sense, a majority of the creatures lurking below the surface may as well be aliens. It was worshipped as the manifestation of the Aztec god, Xolotl, it typically spends its whole life in a forever young, larval tadpole form, it can regenerate its limbs and organs (heart, lungs, eyes, brain, etc.) When removed from its deep-water, high-pressure environment, where it looks more like a typical fish, it takes on the blob appearance. Check out the new video form our friends at Hybrid Librarian: '10 MYTHICAL Creatures That Turned Out To Be REAL': https://youtu.be/xylbc68z_FsFor copyright matters please contact us at: david.f@valnetinc.comThese animals are the subject of myths and legends. You probably won't see one as a guest judge on "American Idol" any time soon, but golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia)are the rock stars of the Amazonian rain forest. "Golden Lion Tamarin." (Feb. 2, 2014.) "Tasmanian Devils rebranded after Warner Bros cartoon 'ruins reputation'." "Charybdis." The truth of the dodo's disappearance is much sadder: Habitat loss and run-ins with human-introduced predators drove the dodo to extinction by the late 1600s. This giant crustacean occupies the floors of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at depths ranging from 560 to 7,020 feet. Fantastic beasts and where you found them. wwf.panda.org. It can grow up to six feet in length and weigh more than 220 pounds. Not all animated animals look like their real-life counterparts. June 1799. There are different kinds, but they all absolutely look like a creature I would have made up as a child. Although the red-lipped batfish appears to have legs, its limb-like appendages are actually fins, which the creature uses to stand on and to check out its surroundings. No matter their appearance, one thing all species of frogfish have in common is their strange mode of locomotion. Extatosoma tiaratum is endemic to Australia. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Yashar Books. No need to look to the shadows for fantastical beasts, the real ones are unbelievable enough as is. The Guardian. But neither of these carnivorous spiders is the biggest living tarantula. Remy, Puss in Boots, Sven, and Mr. Fox all look pretty similar to the real-life animals that inspired the characters. 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