South Island takahē: This was believed to be an extinct species but it was
rediscovered in 1948 in an isolated valley in the Murchison Mountains in New Zealand.
The Golden mole has
eyeballs but they are hidden under their fur and are not functional.
This insect with funny troll hair was
discovered in 2012.
Oriental dwarf kingfishers
ambush their prey.
Golden tortoise beetles can
change their color in development, during mating, and when they are in danger.
Leafy sea dragons are endangered because of poor ecology and are under the protection of the Australian government.
Thanks to their appearance, acraga coa
moths are called pearl, marmalade, and crystal.
Tufted puffins have human-looking eyes. They can only make
one egg at a time and they put it in a burrow made in the soft ground.
Yellow-tailed woolly
monkeys are very rare and they can only be found in the Peruvian Andes.
Blue-eyed black lemurs: Only the
males become pitch black, females remain light-orange.
Experts
don’t know a lot about these cute spiders called Encyosaccus sexmaculatus. They live in South America.
Mangalica is a Hungarian
breed of house pigs that appeared in the middle of the 19th century.
“Check out this crazy-looking grasshopper I found.”
This spider with horns is
found in Northern India and Bangladesh.
The southern elephant seal is
the largest member of the clade Pinnipedia. The males can range from 4,900 lbs to 8,800 lbs and grow up to 14 ft to 19 ft in length.
Only the male
King eiders have this unusual color. The females are dark brown.
If you take a close look at the incisors of cape hyraxes, you will see that they are like small tusks. This is because they are
related to elephants.
Males of the greater bird-of-paradise
have unique appearances. They use that and their dancing abilities to attract females.
