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Strangest Animals – The Strangest Animals on Earth

Glowing giant siphonophore stretching like a long chain in dark water

Strange animal of the day

Giant Siphonophore

Longer than a blue whale – and it’s not one animal

Meet it → Surprise me

Mata mata turtle with spiky, leaf-like head and shell covered in algae, resting in dark murky water among fallen leaves.

Animals

Pick your kind of strange

Mammals that lay eggs. Fish that walk. Birds that bark. Start with a group and go from there.

Pictured: Mata Mata Turtle →
Komodo dragon flicking its forked tongue on a dry forest floor at dusk, with leafless branches and misty hills behind it.

Traits

What makes them strange

Glows in the dark. Regrows its limbs. Looks like an alien. Browse the animal kingdom by superpower.

Pictured: Komodo Dragon →
Two black barbled dragonfish with glowing lures in the deep sea

Habitats

Where the strange things live

From the pitch-black bottom of the ocean to the top of the rainforest canopy.

Pictured: Barbled Dragonfish →
Slow loris with big round eyes clinging to a mossy branch in a misty rainforest with sunbeams

Regions

Strange, by address

Every corner of the planet has its own oddballs. Find out who lives near you.

Pictured: Slow Loris →
Giant isopod with pale pinkish segmented body and long antennae crawling across the dark seafloor in deep-sea darkness

Status

Still here. For now.

Some are doing fine. Some are down to their last few hundred. See who needs the most luck.

Pictured: Giant Isopod →

Not strange enough?

Let fate decide. One click, one random oddball.

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