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Strangest Animals – The Strangest Animals on Earth

Narwhal swimming underwater beneath icebergs, showing its spotted gray body and long spiral tusk extending to the left.

Strange animal of the day

Narwhal

The unicorn is real. It’s a whale.

Meet it → Surprise me

Vampire squid swimming in dark deep-sea water, with red-brown body, large blue-ringed eye, and webbed arms spread wide showing its cloak-like membrane.

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: Vampire Squid →
Duck-billed platypus swimming underwater over leafy river bottom, with its flat rubbery bill and webbed feet visible among tree roots.

Traits

What makes them strange

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

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

Habitats

Where the strange things live

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

Pictured: Giant Isopod →
Mata mata turtle with spiky, leaf-like head and shell, partly submerged among leaves and roots in dark forest water.

Regions

Strange, by address

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

Pictured: Mata Mata Turtle →
Pink fairy armadillo with a soft pink shell and white fur walking across sandy dunes at dusk, with desert scrub around it.

Status

Still here. For now.

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

Pictured: Pink Fairy Armadillo →

Not strange enough?

Let fate decide. One click, one random oddball.

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