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9 Weirdest-Looking Animals You Didn't Know Existed (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post   ThienVinh Nguyen   First Posted: 3/18/10   Updated: 5/25/11

From newly-discovered deep sea crustaceans to rodent-resembling primates, nature has brought us some outright weird-looking creatures. Check out these animals that just seem out-of-this world and vote for the one you think is the weirdest of them all!

Axolotl
 
The axolotl is a Mexican neotenic mole salamander. Neotenic means that, as adults, it holds onto traits seen in juveniles.
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From newly-discovered deep sea crustaceans to rodent-resembling primates, nature has brought us some outright weird-looking creatures. Check out these animals that just seem out-of-this world and vot...
From newly-discovered deep sea crustaceans to rodent-resembling primates, nature has brought us some outright weird-looking creatures. Check out these animals that just seem out-of-this world and vot...
 
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04:32 PM on 10/27/2009
The axolotl has a dreamy way of moving, slow and graceful. You can see a video of bio-engine­ered axolotls here: http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=Uleb3MlZ4­JU They glow green under a blue light.
06:11 AM on 10/19/2009
http://www­.all-creat­ures.org/q­uotes/best­on_henry.h­tml

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicate­d artifice, man in civilizati­on surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion­. We patronize them for their incomplete­ness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings­: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."

bees dance and see in UV.
09:37 PM on 10/18/2009
I don't believe there's a rabbit in there. It looks suspicious­ly like something I saw under my bed.
07:38 PM on 10/18/2009
I personally feel us humans look pretty weird. We have a pretty unique body plan for the animal kingdom. Most of us don't have the elegant shapes that you would see on wild animals.
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12:29 PM on 10/18/2009
The aye-aye bares a striking resembelan­ce to Olympia Snowe.
07:54 PM on 10/17/2009
I had a friend whose family had an Axolotl as a pet. It wasn't nearly as cute as this one!!
03:11 AM on 10/17/2009
I thought I might get to see Cheney given the headline here, but nope. Although the giant Isopod bears a striking resemblanc­e.
12:17 AM on 10/17/2009
That's "see horse", not "sea hose".
10:21 PM on 10/16/2009
Does the Aye Aye remind anyone else of Orly Taitz?
05:27 AM on 10/17/2009
Not scary enough
11:50 AM on 10/17/2009
I was thinking Ms. Bachman at first, but you nailed it !! Orly is almost a twin sister !!
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10:13 PM on 10/16/2009
What's a sea hose?
05:31 AM on 10/17/2009
A marine gastric disturbanc­e.
10:02 PM on 10/16/2009
So, I say to my six-year-o­ld, "Want to see a picture of the weirdest animal ever?" I pull it up and he says, "Oh, a Mexican salamander­!" Thank you, Ranger Rick.
09:36 PM on 10/16/2009
Am I missing something? In Australia axolotls are very common pets. I had a couple when I was a kid.
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09:02 PM on 10/16/2009
I want a Mexican neotenic mole salamander­!
12:27 PM on 10/17/2009
I want a tarsier! Sadly (or not?) I was aware of all these and I've always though tarsiers were so darn cute!
08:06 PM on 10/16/2009
Neotenic: as adults they hold onto the traits seen in juveniles.

I like that!
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09:31 PM on 10/16/2009
Neotentic sounds like a descriptio­n of my ex-husband­!
12:27 PM on 10/17/2009
LOL, mine too!
07:57 PM on 10/16/2009
A lot of those things look like Pokemon! Especially the Axolotl. It's name even sounds like one.