How can you not look at this compendium of animal weirdos? As far as I know, these are all real. Check out the human-faced carp:
And how about that wrinkle-faced bat (Centurio senex)?
h/t: Henry Gee
The world’s 50 freakiest animals
February 15, 2010 • 4:29 pm
Yeah… but where’s the picture of Ken Ham?
Someone pointed out this (old) web site to me earlier today. I vote for creepiest as the Hagfish.
Very nicely ugly indeed!
I have one word for the bat:
IÁ!
Pretty sure I saw those carp on Monty Python’s Meaning of Life.
No tongue eating isopods??
How can there be two jerboas but no mantis shrimp? I can understand having one jerboa (although they picked the wrong species of pygmy jerboa for the video), but a mantis shrimp is a bizarre hybrid between mantis, shrimp, and lobster, has three-lobed eyes, has the nickname “thumb-splitter”, and can exert so much force with it claws that the water actually lights up! How can that not be on the list? It is certainly weirder than the dugong. Although being from florida may have desensitized my to sirenia.
Although I agree the tongue-eating isopod is also a good choice.
Human-faced? More like seal-faced.
Wow! That is a little freaky