Obscure animal species

Any interesting Seldom-Seen Species you know about?

Look at the spiny orb-weaver spider. I've seen some in real life before, but I never knew what they were called until now.

Check out the Axolotl. The closet you can get to a real life Pokemon.

edited 12th Nov '17 4:59:19 PM by Albino_Axolotl

The fossa is probably one of my favorite obscure animals, partly because it's an excellent showcase of convergent evolution and partly because it looks like a cat and dachshund ended up in a G-rated teleporter accident.

Pangolins. They're like big artichoke creatures that walk around with T-rex arms and they're so cute

Also, they can hang upside down with their tails and curl up into a ball.

Everyone, meet the serval!

Holy fuck, that serval kitten is so cute. No love for the Spider-Tailed Horned Viper, aka Pseudocerastes urarachnoides?

Edited by KJsixteen on May 10th 2019 at 7:36:52 AM

The kakapo is a flightless parrot from New Zealand, and it's adorable. Unfortunately they're also extremely endangered, but there are captive breeding programs going, and apparently they've been quite successful this year.

Edited by SapphireBlue on May 10th 2019 at 8:26:35 AM

The Jorunna genus of slugs, which resemble rabbits. In fact, jorunna parva is also known as sea bunny.

Jorunna funebris

Jorunna pardus◊

Jorunna parva◊

Nudibranchs are cool in general. So many colors and patterns!

Slow Loris

The related blue glaucus is quite a beautiful little creature.

Also, the awesomely prehistoric-looking hoatzin.

I give you the Corsican wildcat. Looks like a really angry Garfield, but may be a new species.

More people need to know about the Australian Giant Burrowing Cockroach. I love hissing cockroaches, and these guys remind me of them.

Meet the accidental Sonic character, the Lowland Streaked Tenrec.

Shadow honestly looks more like that thing than a hedgehog.

I think there was also a tenrec character in the Archie comics.

Want obscure and cool animals?

How about the goddamn Giant New Caeledonian Gecko and Maned Wolf

Edited by VengefulBale on Jul 31st 2020 at 4:26:44 AM

The maned wolf reminds me of the chili hallucination from The Simpsons.

Maned wolves are T O L B O Y E S

W A T E R D E E R - Deer, with fangs.

Greenland Shark. Because, uniquely among animals, it lives for centuries, thanks to the freezing arctic waters slowing down its metabolism.

It also has meat that's practically covered in piss and can intoxicate and leave you drunk.

Anoa. I think only Indonesians will know. They're basically mini bulls. Also: - Wolverines actually exist. - Vaquitas, probably. It's kind of sad to see this species only having around 19 specimens left.

Edited by TheGeekArtist08 on Aug 13th 2020 at 9:29:02 PM

Trichoplax. They’re little blobs, like amoebae but hairy, and animals!