10 Unusual Animals You Won't Believe Are Real

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10 Unusual Animals You Won't Believe Are Real
Contrary to what you want to believe, the world is not only populated by cute and fuzzy animals. There are pretty strange ones out there and today, we will be looking at 10 of the most unusual animals you won’t believe are real. Number one holds the unflattering distinction of being the ugliest bird on the planet so make sure to stay tuned to find out what it is.

Number 10. The Mexican Mole Lizard
The Mexican Mole Lizard is quite a strange animal; it’s called a lizard but isn’t, it looks like and just about the size of a worm but it6 isn’t. what it does have are a pair of strong front legs, beady, underdeveloped eyes, pink skin, and, in its native land of Baja California, a bad reputation.
The bad reputation stems from legends surrounding this animal. The story goes that it waits for people to go poopy time out in the woods, and when the person squats down, this ultimate opportunist enters the body through, you know, there, and will then proceed to rip your guts apart from the inside. This legend is so prevalent that, as the leading expert on this animal has proven countless times, asking locals about this animal will give you disapproving looks.
But the truth is, the Mexican mole lizard is completely harmless. It usually prefers to spend its days underground, only coming out to forage at night, It’s a very opportunistic eater and will eat just about anything that it could get its conical shaped teeth on. Not much is known about this animal, what we do know is that it doesn’t deserve its bad reputation.

Number 9. The Hummingbird Hawk Moth
Keeping up with the confusing name conventions scientists are so fond of, I present you the Hummingbird Hawk Moth; a hummingbirdsized insect that looks and behaves like a hummingbird, but is definitely a moth.
Once you’ve seen a hummingbird hawkmoth and its impressive proboscis darting about from flower to flower, it’s easy to understand why many think they’re actually a bird. Indeed, quite apart from hovering like an exotic hummingbird, this confusing insect clearly looks as if it has tail feathers, where most moths have a tapered abdomen.
The hawkmoth’s inchlong, curved proboscis, which uncoils as they feed, allows it to suck up nectar from flowers that have a long corolla, such as honeysuckle, giving the moths a clear advantage over other nectarguzzling insects. Furthermore, these whizzy hummingbird impressionists are clever, as they remember to revisit highnectaryielding plants.

Number 8. The Fossa
The elusive fossa is one of those animals that is indigenous to Madagascar. And like most animals living in Madagascar, it is a very unique creature that kind of has an identity crisis. You see, the fossa’s closest living relative is the mongoose. But aside from sharing a common lineage, the two animals have virtually nothing in common. You see, the fossa was initially mistaken for a species of cat.
When you examine a fossa, you’ll find out that it’s a really easy mistake to make. Its shape is definitely catlike, although its muzzle does resemble that of a dog. They also have the retractable claws of a cat, and felinelike teeth.
It is the largest carnivore, and thus the top predator in Madagascar, where it is equally at home on the ground or high up in the trees, where it uses its long tail to balance as it climbs from branch to branch. It eats just about anything it could get its sharp claws on, from mice and even wild pigs. But it mostly hunts lemur, which is yet another creature native to Madagascar.

Number 5. The Tarantula Hawk
Most species avoid spiders, which includes some humans. There is a perfectly good reason for this: These predatory champions of the insect world sometimes have venom capable of taking down large mammals. To the tarantula hawk, however, arachnophobia is not even a word, rather it actively targets large tarantula spiders as a food source.
The female tarantula hawk is actually an exceptionally large wasp, carrying its own paralyzing venom so potent that renders its victim motionless but still alive. She then lays her eggs in the stillliving spider and buries the carcass. When the eggs hatch, the baby tarantula hawks eat the living tarantula spider as they emerge and gain strength. Remember the first time you saw the chest burster from Alien? It’s kind of like that. It’s a truly terrifying experience from the perspective of the spider.