THE 8 WEIRDEST ANIMALS

(By National Geographic)

Juan Alfonso Mendieta Cruz

Using its fins to walk

Only four specimens

Ten-centimeter

Pink Handfish

Squid? Worm?

Bristle-based "paddles" and tentacles  

Census of Marine Life researchers

2007 - Remotely operated vehicle (2.8 kilometers under the Celebes Sea)

Ten centimeter

The first member of a new family of segmented worms.

Squid Worm

Santa Ana River - 2006.

Unnamed

Wood

Wood-Eating Catfish

September 2010

Beaked toad

Long, pointy, snoutlike nose

Mr. Burns from The Simpsons

The Simpsons Toad

This tube-nosed fruit bat

October 2009

Yoda Bat

Snub-nosed > sneeze

The only specimen had been killed

It was eaten

Sneezing Snub-Nosed Monkey

"Ninja" Slug

Boasting a tail three times the length of its head

Long-tailed slug

Borneo

Shoots "love darts" made of calcium carbonate and spiked with hormones

Increase reproductive success.

Purple Octopus

Unidentified

Deep-sea

Canada's Atlantic coast

Pristine alien environment