There are enough miracles in our world ... How beautiful and vast our planet is! Man shares his house called Earth with his brethren, whom the Creator also created. And these are birds, mammals and of course the most different, beautiful, unusual and amazing animals, the existence of which we did not even know about.
But there are very unusual living creatures on our planet that are unlike the rest. They scare or attract with their strange and interesting appearance. Is this a joke of nature, evolution or a special mission? Let's get it together.
“Okay, overseas, is it bad?”
And what a miracle in the world? ”
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Panda ant
Photo Credit (alleged): Chris Lukhaup
Mother Nature is an invention of cunning. Panda ant (Euspinolia militaris) is just a big name, but in fact it is the relatives of our wasps. These wonderful creatures live in Chile.
The cute color does not make this insect more kind and friendly, so you need to be on the lookout for them, because they, like all wasps, have a sharp sting.
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Okapi
When you see this animal, you immediately recall a zebra or a horse, but to our great surprise, they are not even very distant relatives. And what is even stranger is that her relative is none other than a majestic giraffe. Yes exactly. Inexplicably, but it is a fact. And you can see Okapi in the Republic of Congo, in Central Africa.
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Beetle Umbonia Spinosa
Do you have arachnophobia, that is, fear of spiders? But not in this case, because the Umbonia Spinosa Beetle is unable to frighten, but to surprise - completely. Its unusual shape and color amaze and at the same time delight.
The bright and very sharp spike on its back serves as a knife that cuts the succulent plants that this colorful vegetarian beetle feeds on.
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Kitoglav or king heron
I don’t know how, but to the editors of most-beauty.ru this, albeit a large bird, does not resemble a whale. It looks more like a pterodactyl, don’t you? This winged miracle of nature lives in the tropical swamps of eastern Africa and can be found from Sudan to Zambia.
The main difference between a whalehead and all other birds is its eyes, which, like a person’s, are located in the front of the skull, and allow the whalehead to see everything in volume.
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Venezuelan Moth Poodle
Nobody was ready for such a combination, and scientists who discovered a new type of moth were struck by its beauty and increased hairiness. From this and comparison with no less fluffy and white poodle.
On the head of a Venezuelan beauty, elegant, delicate antennas that catch every rustle. This species was found, of course, in colorful Venezuela and quite recently in 2009.
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Moloch
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Not a lizard, not a living thorn - this is how moloch can be characterized. This prickly devil is so skillfully disguised from predators and the sharp spikes covering his entire body are excellent helpers. Moloch lives in the deserts of Australia and lives long enough.
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Wood rough viper
A masked craftswoman, a rough wood viper is the most unusual of all snakes precisely because of its scales, which give it such an interesting look and help hide among the jungle. The poisonous beauty lives in the tropical forests of Africa and has a variety of color options from yellow-red to green.
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Saiga
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The unusual antelope is famous for its nose with two large nostrils, with the help of which the saiga finds its food. What is sad is that it is a species of antelope that is being put under threat of extinction.
The enemy of the saiga is the steppe wolves, and thanks to them, the number of this species is rapidly declining. And these cute artiodactyls live on the territory of China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
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Purple or purple frog
This species of the frog family is completely unlike the usual frogs, firstly - in color, and secondly - in shape. A purple or purple frog lives deep underground and comes to the surface once a year.
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Lichen padlock or Mossy Frog
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And these frogs with bizarre colors are masters of disguise. They live in the southeastern part of Asia. In natural conditions, they are almost impossible to find on the ground - they merge so much with the environment. Their rough spotted skin is very similar to lichens, herbs, and ground. In captive-grown frogs, the color is even more expressive.
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Tenrek
A small, cute, bright and very prickly hedgehog Ternek lives in Madagascar. Its unusual color. It has bright yellow needles, and makes strange noises like screaming.
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Stargazer
The animal is a very close relative of the mole; it also belongs to the family of moles. Starfish in North America. They live underground.
They are distinguished by unusual tentacles located on the face of the animal. These tentacles help stargazers navigate underground and also seek food for themselves. Slow motion showed that the movements of these tentacles are so fast that the animal can examine up to 13 different small objects in one second.
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Brahmin or the Blind Serpent
This strange creature is hard to call a snake, rather it looks like an eel or earthworm of gigantic proportions. But as her name tells us, she is blind, and all because she has no eyes. This is sad.
This snake is not at all scary, on the contrary, I want to feel sorry for it. Here is such a wonderful miracle. The homeland of these blind, cold-blooded is bright Thailand, but now they can be found in almost all tropical and subtropical countries of our planet.
This creature was first discovered in 1968, and still it is very little studied. But scientists have found that a biologically blind snake is closer to salamanders and frogs than to snakes. They are not even reptiles.
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Yazyk ordinary
The little butterfly is very similar to a hummingbird bird, because it drinks nectar also in flight, so to speak, in a canopy, and does not sit on it like the rest of its relatives.
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Giant spider camel
This spider belongs to the saltpugs - the order of arachnids. Very rare species. Bites of large individuals can be very painful for humans, but they do not represent serious harm. They can feed on all animals close in size, including lizards and birds.
On most-beauty.ru there is a very interesting article that is completely devoted to salpugs.
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Pheidole drogon
This species of ants is common only in Papua New Guinea. It differs in hooked spikes of an unusual shape, making the ant look like a mythical dragon. Ants were first described in 2017.
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Iuiuniscus iuiuensis
This blind, unpigmented animal is a new subfamily, genus, and species of amphibian isopod found in a South American cave.
Animals build shelters from mud. The cave in which the species was found has a single entrance, and its internal chambers are flooded during the rainy season.
Eight more caves were explored in the region, but a new species was discovered only in one of them. This isopod measures just over 9 mm in length, and builds spherical shelters of irregular shape in which it molts. Because during molting it is especially vulnerable to predators.
The new look is unique in its appearance, the animals have unusual plates at the base of the legs, which give them a prickly appearance.
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Walking stick
Although this newly discovered stick insect is not the longest in the world, it belongs to the family known as giant stick insects.
Phryganistria tamdaeoensis is convincing evidence that despite their 24 cm size, new species of insects can be found, and our knowledge of these camouflage masters is far from complete.
This giant wand is common in the Tam Dao Vietnamese National Park. Surprisingly, many entomologists who could not notice it visited this wound park.
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Saltuarius eximius
A recently discovered species of gecko-shaped lizards lives in northeast Australia. It is endemic. It has an amazing color, making the animal a master of camouflage.
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Devil Worm
This species of nematodes was discovered deep underground in gold mines. Animals were found in accumulations of water at a depth of 0.9 to 3.6 km. For their awesome appearance, these tiny organisms were called Devil Worms (Halicephalobus mephisto). They are capable of surviving in extreme conditions: high temperature and low oxygen levels do not scare them at all.
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Bouncing cockroach
Cockroaches themselves are not very nice insects. And jumping cockroaches are unlikely to please anyone. Nevertheless, this type of cockroach, which was first found in 2010, was nominated by Nature magazine for "the most beautiful new species of the year."
The body length of a cockroach is 8–10 mm.
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Linguata
The name of these animals comes from the Latin "lingula", which means "language". The name was given to them because of their tongue-shaped conch. The most amazing thing about these animals is that they survived more than 99% of all species on the planet. The remains of these animals are found in rocks belonging to the early Cambrian (540 million years ago).
Finally
"Overseas life is not bad,
This is a miracle in the world. ”
These are the wonders of nature we saw today. Our planet is huge and completely unknown, and you and I have seen this. Do not forget that we are all very different and we all have our own mission on this Earth. And if God created us just like that, then it means something for something.
The editors of most-beauty.ru asks you to leave comments on this article. Write to us what other amazing animals should be on this list. And we advise you to take a look at the continuation of this article called Amazing sea creatures, which are absolutely not like ordinary animals. Here you will see photos and descriptions of marine animals similar to fantastic aliens.