Top 10 weirdest animals in the world that not only scare you by their look but also their existence will generate more curiosity within you that these species will ever live on this planet.
The world of forests and oceans is where you can find the most beautiful animals and plants. There are approximately 8.7 million species, with 6.5 million species on land and 2.2 million in oceans, these are the census of marine life. But scientists suggest figures could be in millions.
Some of the species are hiding deep inside the oceans and others are deep in the forests.
Here we discuss only the 10 weirdest animals that inhabit our planet.
1 Blobfish
Blobfish rank as the world’s ugliest animal, it is a deep-sea fish, which inhabits deep in the ocean at a depth of 600 to 1,200 meters off the coast of Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania. Blobfish is lacking in muscle and it gobbles up whatever comes in its way.
The fish use gas bladders to create buoyancy, the blobfish does it by being made up of gelatinous mass with slightly lower density than water.
2. Ctenophora
Ctenophora is the marine invertebrate known as comb jellies or sea walnuts. They look like alien creatures in the deep sea. The Ctenophora often eats anything from microscopic larvae to small crustaceans.
The Ctenphora is considered to be the oldest living creature on planet Earth, because of its presence on Earth which is hundreds of millions of years.
3. Komondor Dog
Komondor dog is a Hungarian sheepdog that is largely white and furry and woolly. It is one of the weirdest dogs in the world. A fully mature coat is shaped naturally and the coarser outer coat unites to form fringes. If you look at it from a distance you’ll think that the sheep is roaming on the road.
4.Turritopsis Nutricula
One of the weirdest sea creatures is the Hydroid jellyfish of the family Oceanidae, the Turritopsis Nutricula originally from the Caribbean Sea. It can find it in the warm and tropical seas. Scientists can find it in Colombia, Japan, and the Mediterranean Sea.
It has a jellyfish-like structure and 80-90 tentacles and the young ones have eight tentacles. It has a big red stomach inside and can shine in the dark.
5. Frilled-Neck Lizard
A frilled-neck lizard is found in northern Australia and Southern New Guinea. They adapted their body in such a way as to ward off potential predators and has the ability to run extremely fast and are capable of running on their hind legs when they pick up speed.
6. Goblin Shark
Goblin Shark is the creepiest shark that we found ever lived. It has a long prominence snout covered with the sensing organ. It has a lineage of around 125 million years old.
Its length is around 3-4 meters long and one of the longest that we have ever found is measured at around 6 meters The color of the skin is pink and the pointy snout with crooked, nail-like teeth can move incredibly fast.
7. Matamata Turtle
The Matamata turtle is one of the weirdest animal found in the universe. A freshwater turtle found in South America, primarily in the Amazon and Orinoco Basins.
It is considered to be one of the lazy creatures you have ever found in the sea. It never hunts on its own it’ll wait for the creature to come near it, bites down, or ensure a fantastic meal.
8. Pink-fairy Armadillo
As we all know about the Armadillo, the cute little one with a hardcover at the top of it, whenever some predators attack them, they roll out to their protective shell. But one of the weirdest animal is Pink-fairy Armadillo found in the deserts of Argentina.
It is pink-colored creatures that can hardly be seen in the desert because they can find underground.
9. Stargazer Fish
The stargazer fish you can find in deep and shallow salt waters. It is one of “the Meanest Things in Creation”.
The stargazer fish features incredibly large eyes on top of its head. It buries itself at the bottom of the ocean sand and just moves up its head above the sand to hunt for prey. Its prey unable to detect them due to its hiding ability and they are easily become the food for this fish.
It is one of the best hunters of the marine organism it shows many tricks like venomous spines and electrically shock anyone who tries to touch it from afar.
10. Heikegani Crab
In the list of one of the weirdest animal found in the sea of Japan. The Heikegani crab is the strangest and weirdest because its face looks like an angry crab. The name Heikegani came from the powerful clan known as Taira Clan, which dominated medieval Japan, and is commonly known as the Heike.
Japanese people commonly called it “The Samurai Ghost Crab”. In Japan, these crabs are considered to be the most sacred ones, and put these creatures on the pedestal.
These weirdest animals are fascinate us alot, there are other species that are strange and still not discover by scientists but one day we will find them deep inside the ocean or inside the dense forests.