The Weird Animal Encyclopedia
80 of the strangest creatures alive — each with the real fact, the full story, and the video. The same library that powers the daily game.
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Anglerfish
Glowing rod on its head
Blue Dragon
Steals its prey's stingers
Immortal Jellyfish
Biological immortality
Platypus
Senses electric fields with its bill
Star-Nosed Mole
Eats in 8 milliseconds
Surinam Toad
Births from its own back
Tardigrade
Survives almost anything
Tongue-Eating Louse
Becomes a living replacement organ
Assassin Bug
Wears its victims' corpses
Axolotl
Regrows its own brain
Aye-Aye
Taps wood to find grubs
Bird of Paradise
Becomes a glowing smiley face
Bombardier Beetle
Fires boiling acid like a machine gun
Bowerbird
Builds a color-sorted art gallery
Cuttlefish
Hypnotic skin light show
Decorator Crab
Wears a living disguise
Glass Frog
Turns transparent to vanish
Goblin Shark
Slingshot jaws
Hagfish
Instant choking slime cloud
Hoatzin
Ferments leaves like a cow
Horned Lizard
Shoots blood from its eyes
Leaf Sheep
Runs on stolen sunlight
Leafy Sea Dragon
Living seaweed disguise
Mantis Shrimp
Sonic bullet-punch + 16-colour vision
Naked Mole Rat
Cancer-proof and pain-proof
Ocean Sunfish
Heaviest bony fish alive
Octopus
Nine independent brains
Pangolin
Living armor that beats lions
Peacock Spider
Rainbow courtship dance
Pink Fairy Armadillo
Swims through solid sand
Pistol Shrimp
5,000° sonic bubble
Sea Cucumber
Fires its own guts at attackers
Tarsier
Eyes bigger than its brain
Velvet Worm
Fires sticky slime nets
Wood Frog
Freezes solid and revives
Archerfish
Spits water bullets to down flying prey
Basilisk Lizard
Runs across water
Blue-Ringed Octopus
Deadly venom with no cure
Cassowary
Five-inch dagger kicks
Chameleon
Slingshot tongue twice its body length
Cone Snail
Venom-loaded harpoon tooth
Crow
Never forgets a face
Dung Beetle
Steers by the Milky Way
Flamingo
Eats its way to pink
Frigatebird
Flies for months nonstop
Frilled Lizard
Head-umbrella bluff
Gecko
Sticks to glass
Giant Isopod
Years without eating
Giant Squid
Eyes the size of dinner plates
Goliath Birdeater
Flicks burning barbed hairs
Honey Badger
Venom immunity + fearlessness
Hummingbird
1,200-bpm heart and backward flight
Kangaroo Rat
Lives without ever drinking
Lyrebird
Perfect sound mimicry
Mudskipper
A fish that walks on land
Okapi
18-inch blue-black tongue
Opossum
Fakes its own death
Orchid Mantis
Lures bees by faking a flower
Potoo
Vanishes as dead wood
Saiga Antelope
Built-in air-filter nose
Secretary Bird
Stomps snakes to death
Shoebill Stork
Statue-still ambush strike
Thorny Devil
Drinks water through its skin
Vampire Bat
Shares blood to save friends
Wombat
Cube-shaped poop
Bat
Sees with sound
Cottontail Rabbit
Eats food twice
Electric Eel
860-volt living taser
Fennec Fox
Never needs to drink
Harpy Eagle
Bone-crushing talons
Komodo Dragon
Venomous bite that crashes blood pressure
Maned Wolf
Tallest wild dog alive
Raccoon
Sees the world by touch
Sea Otter
Holds hands to sleep
Skunk
Burning chemical spray
Sloth
Once-a-week danger run
Coyote
Thrives anywhere
Owl
270° head + night vision
Peregrine Falcon
240 mph hunting dive
Squirrel
Accidental forest planter
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