22 Strange Animals You Probably Didn’t Know Exist

Most of us don’t grasp the variety of animals species that inhabit the Earth today, and some even get surprised as they find out there’s an animal they haven’t heard of before. But seriously now – out of 1,367,555^[1] identified non-insect animal species that live on Earth today, how do you expect to know every single one of them? To put it into perspective, take into account that this number represents only 1% of all animal species that ever lived!

Scientists themselves keep discovering new species every year and admit that modern science is not familiar with all existing animals. This leaves room to such unique and even bizarre discoveries and collected in this post! Inspired by reddit, we put together a selection of such unheard-of creatures as a Dumbo Octopus, Pink Fairy Armadillo, Star-Nosed Mole and many more. Warning – not all of them are super cute and fluffy!

1. Pink Fairy Armadillo

2. Aye-aye

3. The Maned Wolf

4. Tufted Deer

5. Dumbo Octopus

6. Patagonian Mara

7. Naked Mole Rat

8. Irrawaddy Dolphin

9. The Gerenuk

10. Dugong

11. The Babirusa

Image credits: oregonzoo.org

12. Lamprey

Image credits: forum.lowyat.net

13. The Fossa

Image credits: en.academic.ru | imgur

14. Star-Nosed Mole

Image credits: synapsebristol.blogspot.com

15. Sunda Colugo

Image credits: identi.info

16. Zebra Duiker

Image credits: imgur

17. Yeti Crab

Image credits: oceanleadership.org

18. Superb Bird of Paradise

Image credits: BBC Planet Earth | National Geographic

19. Blob Fish

Image credits: coloribus.com | monsterfishworld.com

20. Cantor’s Giant Soft Shelled Turtle

Image credits: wwf.panda.org

21. Gobi Jerboa

Image credits: tgran | wildofanimals.blogspot.com

22. Japanese Spider Crab

Image credits: telegraph.co.uk