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

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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[jillgee]

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.

[anticapitalist1983]

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.

[simplystunned]

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.

[jhalvers]

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.

[TheSheeple]

12:29 PM on 10/18/2009

The aye-aye bares a striking resembelance to Olympia Snowe.

[mrobins3]

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!!

[rhubardpi]

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.

[Barticus]

12:17 AM on 10/17/2009

That's "see horse", not "sea hose".

[jarotra]

10:21 PM on 10/16/2009

Does the Aye Aye remind anyone else of Orly Taitz?

[anastomosis]

05:27 AM on 10/17/2009

Not scary enough

[azurite]

11:50 AM on 10/17/2009

I was thinking Ms. Bachman at first, but you nailed it !! Orly is almost a twin sister !!

[MIMom]

10:13 PM on 10/16/2009

What's a sea hose?

[anastomosis]

05:31 AM on 10/17/2009

A marine gastric disturbance.

[tb92]

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.

[tribecca]

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.

[H321]

09:02 PM on 10/16/2009

I want a Mexican neotenic mole salamander!

[The Lorax]

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!

[Saddler1]

08:06 PM on 10/16/2009

Neotenic: as adults they hold onto the traits seen in juveniles.

I like that!

[Theda]

09:31 PM on 10/16/2009

Neotentic sounds like a description of my ex-husband!

[The Lorax]

12:27 PM on 10/17/2009

LOL, mine too!

[iluvwhtchix]

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.