By Sheetal Kumari | November 05, 2025
This smiling salamander from Mexico is forever young, retaining its larval features in adulthood and making it oddly adorable.
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Often referred to as the world’s ugliest fish, the blobfish’s jelly-like body allows it to live deep beneath the ocean’s surface where the pressure is extreme—cute or creepy, you decide.
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With 22 pink tentacles on its snout, this mole uses its bizarre nose to detect food underground faster than a human eye can blink.
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Wrinkled and almost hairless, these social rodents from East Africa live in underground colonies and can survive without oxygen for minutes.
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This Malagasy lemur uses its long, bony middle finger to find insects inside trees and thus earns both curiosity and fear.
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Standing tall with a huge shoe-shaped beak, this prehistoric-looking bird from Africa is both majestic and slightly menacing.
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A cousin of the seahorse, it looks like floating seaweed, camouflaged perfectly in the coastal waters of Australia—a real marine marvel.
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This mangrove monkey from Borneo has a large, comic nose and is surprisingly good-natured and an excellent swimmer.
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With its extendable jaws and ghostly pink skin, this deep-sea predator is the stuff of nightmares – but it fascinates scientists.
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These tiny primates from Southeast Asia have huge, round eyes that help them hunt insects at night—equal parts eerie and endearing.
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