TIL Strangest Looking Animals that I Didn't Know Existed

in til •  8 years ago  (edited)

Dumbo Octopus

Their more scientific name is Grimpoteuthis and are a deep sea octopus. The large ears similar to our favorite cartoon elephant contribute to their more common name.




Pink Fairy Armadillo

These cute little guys are mainly found in central Argentina in South America and are the smallest known species of Armadillos.

Aye Aye

While normally I'm way more attracted to cute things, the Aye Aye was just to eye catching to not include here. Once thought to be extinct, these guys are on the endangered species list, a part of the Lemur family and are found in Madagascar.



Blob Fish

The Blob Fish are a deep water species where they use their jello like 'skin' to deal with the high pressures of their environment while being able to keep enough buoyancy to 'float' just above the sea floor without using much energy. Some fear that they could soon enter the endangered species list due to being caught in deep water nets.




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Aye Aye 1
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Cude:) Thanks for sharing.

TY! I needed a little cute (and a little creepy) to help my mood today. Lol
Glad you enjoyed!

The top one looks like a pokemon.

Hehe, it looks like someone else agreed with you.

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Lol:)

lol, Jabba the Hut some of them lol

Rofl, that exists too! :P

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I've been sending you FB msgs to check on you but know you are not on there as much so I wandered here to check and boom here are 2 posts! I hope the move went OK. I am seeing comments you are in a bad mood -- remember I said Pizza fixes things.

TYTY! Sry...I'll admit I'm not great at remembering FB right now. Definitely a much better chance I catch things on here, but poking like you do works well. :)

Yea, not a fun time but was necessary. Once I get the job thing figured out I'll be in a much better place. I can't really plan for anything else without that first.

And yes...pizza fixes a lot! And I'm back in the home of Imo's, my favorite pizza out there.

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Few of these are really bizarre looking.

Hehe, totally agree! They almost don't seem real...more pokemon like :)

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That's the thought I had too. :-)

Ahahah they look super funny :)

Hehe, totally with you there. These all seemed like things more likely photoshopped than actually real! :P

I'm so scary to seeing this. LOL

Hehe, nature can do some amazing things. Some cute, some a bit more freaky looking :)

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