Unusual Animals

Blind Lobster

Blind Lobster This new species of lobster is blind—an adaptation to deep-sea life—and has very bizarre claws, or chelipeds. It belongs to the rare genus Thaumastochelopsi, which was previously known from just four specimens in Australia. This species was discovered about 300 meters (984 feet) deep. Blind Lobster Information A new species, this blind lobster [...]
Crab

Crab Crabs are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton, and armed with a single pair of chelae (claws). Crabs are found in all of the world’s oceans, while many crabs live in fresh water and on land, particularly in tropical regions. Crabs vary in size from the pea crab, a few millimetres wide, to the [...]
Fangtooth Fish

Fangtooth Fish Fangtooth Fish are ferocious-looking deep-sea beryciform fish of the family Anoplogastridae (sometimes spelled “Anoplogasteridae”). With a circumglobal distribution in tropical and cold-temperate waters, the family contains only two very similar species, in one genus, with no known close relatives: the common fangtooth, Anoplogaster cornuta, found worldwide; and the shorthorned fangtooth, Anoplogaster brachycera, found [...]
Glow In The Dark Fish

Glow In The Dark Fish These Glow in the Dark fish were genetically modified with plans to reproduce as pets. An aquarium fish — a convict cichlid, also known as the zebra cichlid — that has been transgenically modified to glow in the dark. A whole school of the glow-in-the-dark fish, which were modified using [...]
Babirusa

Babirusa A wild pig in the Asian Island region with one set of tusks grow up along the snout, the others grow through the top of the muzzle and curves back toward the forehead The babirusas are a genus, Babyrousa, in the pig family (Suidae) found in Wallacea, or specifically the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi, [...]
Tasmanian Wolf (Thylacine)

Tasmanian Wolf (Thylacine) The Tasmanian Wolf was not a wolf nor a tiger. It was a marsupial, related to kangaroos. The mythical Tasmanian Wolf, Thylacinus cynocephalus, is a marsupial, a pouched mammal, related to kangaroos and wombats. Its predatory habits, its overall similarity to the dog and the wolf, the stripes that earned it the [...]
Deep Sea Anglerfish

Deep Sea Anglerfish The deep sea Angler Fish is a very scary deep sea fish. It has big teethes with a very ferocious appearance. The Angler fish belongs to the order of the Lophiiformes it’s named this way beacuse of their special way of hunting. Angler fishes have many bones, with no flesh attached to [...]
Bilby

Bilby These cute little animals are an endangered species. Bilby’s don’t drink water, they get enough from the food they eat. They sleep during the day in deep burrows and forage at night and are found mostly throughout the arid, dry areas of Australia. The bilby is a unique animal, and is well known within [...]
Leaf Muntjac

Leaf Muntjac (Leaf Deer) The Wildlife Conservation Society, based at the Bronx Zoo, says the animal is the world’s smallest deer species. It is found in dense forest habitats at an elevation of 1500 – 2000 feet, where it s solitary and eats mostly fruit. The leaf muntjac is uniquely found in dense forests of [...]
Chacoan Peccary

When frightened, Chacoan peccaries flee, raising the long hairs on their back and spraying secretions from their dorsal gland, presumably to keep the group together in the dense brush via odor. These secretions are rubbed against group members
Chimaera Fish

Chimaeras are cartilaginous fish in the order Chimaeriformes, known informally as ghost sharks, ratfish (not to be confused with the rattails), spookfish (not to be confused with the true spookfish of the family Opisthoproctidae), or rabbitfishes (not to be confused with the true rabbitfishes of the family Siganidae). They may be the “oldest and most [...]
Fossa

A meat-eating mammal that lives in rainforests and wooded savannas on the island of Madagascar. It is the largest native predator on Madagascar. The fossa is related to the mongoose. Fossas are fast runners and are also very good at climbing trees