Most of us don’t grasp the variety of animals species that inhabit the Earth today, and some even get surprised as they find out there’s an animal they haven’t heard of before. But seriously now – out of 1,367,555 identified non-insect animal species that live on Earth today, how do you expect to know every single one of them? To put it into perspective, take into account that this number represents only 1% of all animal species that ever lived!
Scientists themselves keep discovering new species every year and admit that modern science is not familiar with all existing animals. This leaves room to such unique and even bizarre discoveries and collected in this post! Inspired by reddit, we put together a selection of such unheard-of creatures as a Dumbo Octopus, Pink Fairy Armadillo, Star-Nosed Mole and many more. Warning – not all of them are super cute and fluffy!
Pink Fairy Armadillo
Tufted Deer
Dumbo Octopus
Patagonian Mara
The Gerenuk
The Babirusa
Lamprey
The Fossa
Star-Nosed Mole
Sunda Colugo
Zebra Duiker
Yeti Crab
Blob Fish
Cantor’s Giant Soft Shelled Turtle
Japanese Spider Crab
Red-lipped Batfish
