Rhizosomichthys totae (Greasefish). This catfish has several longitudinal bands of fat along its body, and is so greasy that shish-kebabed specimens were allegedly used as torches by natives. It was last seen in 1957 and is feared extinct.

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ghost birds - a name for a type of potoo (family Nyctibiidae) that is found in the Amazon Basin

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🔥 Rare footage of a Jaguarundi. This vocal, yet elusive feline is native to the Americas and sometimes referred to as the ‘otter-cat’. It has at least 13 distinct calls and is closely related to the Puma

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Saiga antelope aka Mongolian saiga (Saiga tatarica) is critically endangered species that evolved in isolation. Their unusual nose helps them process the cold and dusty air in their habitat.

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Mata Mata, a species of freshwater turtle found in South America. A face only a mata could love

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The raccoon dog is one of the most accurately named animals

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Theloderma corticale also know as Vietnamese Mossy Frog

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the rarely-seen giant flying squirrel (petaurista petaurista)

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This small creature having a snack and getting a bath is called a puggle (baby echidna)

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Golden snub nosed monkey

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A paradise flying snake

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The Elephant Shrew, clearly not as large as an elephant. (Macroscelididae)

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Behold, the Great-Eared Nightjar!

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A mother and baby potoroo enjoying strawberries together in the sunshine.

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Tibetan white yak

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Chrysina Limbata, a species of scarab beetle found in Costa Rica and the rainforests of South America

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The pink grasshopper is a genetic mutation that you only have a 1% chance of seeing during your lifetime!

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Soft shell turtle

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The Bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis)

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I just learned about the Malabar Giant Squirrel. Might need to go to India asap

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Nyala (Tragelaphus angasii): real-life forest spirit? More pics and info in the comments.

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Rupicola rupicola, or the Guianan Cock of the Rock. Looks like a sweet potato chip with an eye attached to a weird fruit.

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petaurista alborufus castaneus - red and white giant flying squirrel

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Black-backed dwarf kingfisher (Ceyx erithaca), terrible name for such a beautiful bird!

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Carnivorous Hawaiian caterpillar (Eupithecia orichloris)

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This is a tufted ground squirrel. IUCN Vulnerable to extinction and endemic to the island of Borneo/Kalimantan. It has the largest tail to body size ratio of any mammal, with the tail being 130% the size of its body.

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Secretary birds are famous for its snake-stomping legs; a single kick delivered some 195 Newtons of force. They are also famous for their long eyelashes.

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The bush dog is a stocky canid with a bear-like face that lives near water in Central and South America. It has partially webbed feet, keeping it from sinking into mud and assisting it in swimming and diving. Don't be fooled by its small stature, it is an apex predator.

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🔥 This Cardinal is a genetic anomaly called a Bilateral Gynandromorph. Inside the egg it was two yolks that combined to form one bird, it is half male half female.

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Hydrosaurus pustulatus, the Philippine sailfin lizard

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Royal Albatross, the largest flying existing bird today

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the painted bat (kerivoula picta) is extremely colorful for a bat, and for a mammal in general

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This is a fishhook ant discovered in Cambodia in 2007. It is capable of piercing skin and getting lodged into the throat of would-be predators. They are known to link together in huge swarms creating a spiked floor to ward off attackers.

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The Northern Right Whale Dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis). They're the only species of dolphin in the North Pacific Ocean without a dorsal fin - 📸 by Delaney Trowbridge in Southern California.

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The gorgeous ribbon seal (Histriophoca fasciata)

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The Pallid Bat (Antrozous pallidus) mostly eats ground dwelling arthropods, such as desert scorpions and centipedes, rather than catching insects in the air. But pallid bats have also been found visiting cactus flowers and are effective pollinators!

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New crab species recently discovered off the coast of Australia called Lamarckdromia beagle, The ylook like little underwater fuzzballs.

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The Luna Moth: the moth that makes butterflies look ugly.

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Necrophylus arenarius

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The markhor is a large species of wild goat that is found in northeastern Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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The Arabian sand boa (Eryx jayakari) is a small harmless, mainly nocturnal snake with eyes that are small and are located on the top of the head.

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Batfox!

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The pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus)

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This Photograph of a male Bargibant's seahorse was taken off the coast of Bali in Indonesia.

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The Comb-crested Jacana and its massive feet

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Tall dog smells like weed

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Behold, the Pyrenean desman, and there is also a Russian desman (there are only two extant species of desman)

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The angular roughshark (Oxynotus centrina) has a stubby snout and enlarged denticles, giving its face a fuzzy, pig-like appearance

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An albino atractosteus spatula!

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🔥 The Red-Shanked Douc Langur

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The Dana Octopus Squid (Taningia danae) “Its photophores are some of the largest such organs known to science...They possess a black membrane over the photophore that may conceal the organs, allowing the squid to blink its lights” squid with blinker and headlights

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Aphrodita, marine worms also know as Sea Mouse

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Sphenodon punctatus, or the tuatara. Despite its resemblance to a lizard, it is actually the only extant member of a completely separate order, Rhynchocephalia. They are an ancient species and have skeletal characteristics inherited from fish and amphibians

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🔥 The duck-billed Tree Frog (Triprion spatulatus)

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🔥 Day 58 of posting an animal from every country - Common Spotted Cuscus (East Timor)

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This is the biggest animal you’ve never heard of. The Takin lives in high altitude regions of southern China, Bhutan and India. The largest individuals can weigh up to 880 pounds (400 kilograms.) While they look similar to musk oxen, they’re closer related to goats and sheep. Basically, a giga-goat.

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Wolf Eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus)

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The Colugo, also known as a Flying Lemur: these mammals are able to glide through the air using a fur-covered membrane that stretches along their cheeks, limbs, fingertips, sides, and tail; as a baby, a colugo must cling to its mother's belly as she glides from tree-to-tree

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California Red-Sided Garter Snake

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🔥Dik-diks bare black spots below the inside corner of each eye contain a preorbital gland that produces a dark, sticky secretion. Dik-diks rub grass stems and twigs into the gland to scent-mark their territories.

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the Sarcastic Fringehead _Neoclinus Blanchardi_

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Pudu

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So many beautiful animals in the ocean, and the lettuce sea slug (elysia crispata) is among them!

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The Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) is the rarest fish in the world. Its entire population is found in one 33.8°C (93°F) pool — mostly on a 3.5 by 5 m (11 by 16 ft) rock shelf — inside a cave in Death Valley, Nevada. The most recent count yielded a promising 263 pupfish.

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The Etruscan shrew is One of the smallest mammals in the world by weight at 1.8 grams on average.

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Pokemon sighting

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Not sure if its been posted but. -🔥 The male Willow Ptarmigan sounds like an Imperial Probe Droid from Star Wars

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Colonies of crested auklets, very gregarious seabirds, can often be smelled before they are seen; apparently giving off an intense citrus smell akin to that of tangerines. The stronger a bird smells, the more successful it appears to be at finding a mate.

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Red and White Giant Flying Squirrel (Petaurista alborufus)

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🔥 A marine iguana

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🔥 great eared nightjar

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Latia Neritoides - This is the only known freshwater bioluminescent snail.

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A Tridacna giant clam near Pulau Tioman Island, Pahang, Malaysia (pic taken just hours ago by a friend)

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The Pinocchio Frog

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The Buff-Tip Moth: the resting posture, shape, and color/pattern of the buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) allow it to mimic a broken birch twig.

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Chorinea Sylphina butterfly showing of its transparent wings

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That's a goddamn Pokey-man

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Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus goodfellowi)

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the extinct shark Helicorpion who had a circular saw of teeth as its lower jaw

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The Pacific Fruit Piercing Moth: Eudocima Phalonia

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Pyura chilensis, also known as piure, looks like a living rock.

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Elephantfish (Campylomormyrus sp.)

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The dik-dik antelope refers to 4 species of the genus Madoqua. This is the silver dik-dik (Madoqua piacentinii), the smallest of the genus, native to Somalia and Ethiopia. Full sized ranges from 4-6.5 pounds max. They have sharp hooves and mark their territory with their tears!

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This Himalayan vulture

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The Takin, Budorcas taxicolor, is a bamboo-eating, Himalayan mountain-dwelling, quarter-ton beast relative of the humble sheep.

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The ringed caecilian, what might be the world’s only known venomous amphibian

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Otocolobus manul (Pallas Cat) in Bojnurd, North Khorasan Province

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Checkered Sengi

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Four toed Jerboa (Allactaga tetradactyla)

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Java mouse-deer (Tragulus javanicus), the smallest living hoofed mammal in the world

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The Dracula parrot is a large, heavy bird, stretching to almost half a metre from beak to tail and weighing in at almost a kilogram. It maintains all that bulk by feeding almost exclusively on figs, which researchers suspect is why it ended up with its strange semi-bald head.

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Dhole

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Gerenuks are long-necked antelopes, with small heads and large eyes and ears. They will stand up straight on their hind legs gracefully when feeding to reach the best vegetation, often using their front legs to lean on the tree trunk. They can even walk on their hind legs for short distances.

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This is the baphomet moth, or creatonotos gangis. It is native to Australia and uses its tentacles to attract females.

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🔥 The Mangalica is the only pig species covered in a long wool coat, similar to a sheep's.

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Vaquita (Phocoena sinus) - barely still existing

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🔥🔥this is bipes biporus the Mexican mole lizard🔥🔥it is one of the only lizards with only two legs🔥🔥

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The Polyphemus Moth, also known as the TARATULA WITH WINGS (Antheraea polyphemus)

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The extremely bumpy skin of a prickly dogfish shark, native to the waters off Australia and New Zealand

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The Mata Mata Turtle (Chelus fimbriata).

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Geoffroy's Tamarins taken in the Gamboa Rainforest Reserve, Panama

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Pacific Football fish washed up on the beach

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Aplysia vaccaria or black sea slug (largest species of slug in existence)

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Blue Carpenter Bumble Bee (Xylocopa Caerulea)

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Nightmare material

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Borneo earless monitor lizards

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The Yeti Crab has a symbiotic relationship with bacteria on its pincers, cultivating the bacteria for food; it raises its arms over the hydrothermal vents and uses the bacteria to produce energy.

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Glaucus Atlanticus (blue dragon slug)

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Amazonian Bush Dog

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The sling-jaw wrasse has quite a mouth on it

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Promachoteuthis Sulcus

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The lowland paca is considered an ecosystem engineer due to the behavior of excavating multiple burrows on its territory, these burrows sometimes provide shelter for other species. It will also disperse seeds throughout its territory; several tree species depend on it for distribution.

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Abedus is a genus of giant water bugs (family Belostomatidae). Giant water bugs exhibit male parental care. In Abedus and other species in the subfamily Belostomatinae (but not subfamily Lethocerinae), the female glues the eggs onto the male's back and the male tends them until the eggs hatch.

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Rhinella margaritifera, the crested forest toad, from South America and Panama. Females have large head crests.

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🔥 A 'Spanish dancer' sea slug spotted in Australia

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The Sumatran rhinoceros, an endangered species that is generally hairer than other rhinos. It is the closest living relative of the woolly rhino.

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Platerodrilus paradoxus, a type of trilobite beetle. This is the larval form of the species, which females remain in even as adults.

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An Australian masked lapwing

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🔥 Indian Flying Fox with pup

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Thought this was pretty cool, never heard of an animal using sound to kill prey.

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The Maned Wolf looks straight out of Pokemon

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The Dragonhead Caterpillar (Polyura Athamas)

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The Nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamlus), is the largest antelope in Asia, aka The Blue Bull of India.

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This is Alvinella pompejana, the Pompeii Worm, it inhabits deep sea vents and feeds exclusively on chemosynthetic bacteria in a symbiotrophic relationship

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A pair of Himalayan serows, Capricornis sumatraensis thar

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Blunt-headed Burrowing frog (Glyphoglossus molossus). Some find it cute.

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Corytophanes cristatus, the smooth helmeted iguana. Found in Central and South American rainforests, able to change color.

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Anastoechus is a genus of bee flies, they are predators of grasshopper egg pods

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Baycat(Catopuma badia) is endemic to borne and one of the world's most endangered species of wild cat with less than 2500 individuals left

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Decorator crab?

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This is the Quokka, an australian marsupial unafraid of humans. It is known for it's smile and it isn't uncommon to see selfies with humans and quokkas on the internet. Unfortunately, it's currently an endangered species.

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Water anole

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Petaurista; rarely-seen giant flying squirrels

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Vulture bees feed on rotting meat instead of nectar and their honey is called meat honey. This is their hive. Would you try some?

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The Gerenuk (This is real)

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Hydrosaurus pustulatus, the Philippine sailfin lizard

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The Cockatoo Waspfish pretends to be a dead leaf getting swept along by the current

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Vaquita. One of approximately ten alive on the planet.

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Basket star

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Satanic Gecko

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Galidia elegans: Ring-tailed Vontsira

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A Snaggle-toothed Snake-eel (Aplatophis zorro)

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🔥This Saiga Antelope

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An Indian purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis) This cute little chonker as the name suggests, lives in India but is sadly endangered but I'm sure we can agree it's a beautiful animal

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🔥 Cantor’s Giant Soft-Shelled Turtle

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The roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)

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rossia pacifica, the stubby squid, looking like a kids toy

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