May 4, 2010

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The weirdest animals on Planet Earth

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    • Seapigs live on, or just underneath, the bottom of the ocean and feed on the mud of the seafloor. Scientists are yet to have worked out how they are such a successful deep-sea creature
    The Hispaniolan solenodon, a strange looking shrew-like creature with a long snout and specialised teeth capable of delivering venom. Only two solenodon species exist today, one in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and the other in Cuba
    The star-nosed mole's snout has 22 fleshy tentacles that are used to identify food by touch. Often found in North America, it lives in wet lowland areas and eats small invertebrates, aquatic insects, worms and molluscs
    The blobfish is a gelatinous mass with a density slightly less than the water. This helps it maintain buoyancy. Hovering just above the sea-floor, the blobfish gobbles edible matter that floats past it
    Photo provided by the Census of Marine Life shows a Kiwa hirsuta, the Yeti crab, a new species found near Easter Island
    A white turtle was found at the riverside of Yellow River in Zhengzhou of Henan Province, China 


    The long eared jerboa has a head measuring between 2.8 inches to 3.5 inches and a tail that is double this size, between 5.9 inches and 6.4 inches. Being such a rare creature, it is in danger of extinction
    The long eared jerboa is a nocturnal mouse-like rodent
    found in the deserts of China and Mongolia.
    It has a long tail, long legs and extremely large ears. Being such a rare creature,
    it is in danger of extinction

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