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Posting photos of amazing species you've never heard of. Highlighting the wonders of evolution & the extraordinary diversity of life. Also follow @weird_animaIs

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An adorable yawning elephant shrew! (Photos Steve Rawlins)
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The badass caterpillar of the Citheronia moth! (Photo vireolanius)
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The tiny Rufous hummingbird is known for its remarkable flight skills, sometimes flying up to 2,000 miles (3,200 km) during migrations.
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The blue cloud forest millipede from Mexico. (Photo Luis Stevens)
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The Mexican mole lizard only has two limbs!
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The Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine.
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A Scolopendra mortisans centipede protecting her eggs. (Photo J Buys)
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The bearded tit. (Photo David Drangsland)
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A Mary River turtle with algae growing on its shell. The turtle uses this algal growth as camouflage to hide from predators. (Photo Chris Van Wyk)
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These specialised parasites have co-evolved with their bat hosts for millions of years. They have developed a flat, hard body to prevent being crushed & velcro-like hairs & claws to grip their host. It looks like a spider, but is actually a wingless fly! (Photos Piotr Nasrecki)
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Bat flies have no eyes & feed on the blood of their mammalian hosts. Unusually, these flies give birth to a single, fully developed larva (rather than lots of eggs). After giving birth, the bat fly leaves its host & attaches its larva to a cave wall, ready to find its next host.
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Even bat flies have parasites! They are often found with specialised mites that feed off their hemolymph (insect equivalent of blood) and parasitic wasps lay eggs inside their pupa.
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The beautiful Spanish moon moth. (Photo Daniel Morel)
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Bats are important pollinators for some cactus species and many other plants. (Photo National Park Service)
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The potoo disguises itself as a broken tree branch to avoid predators. Its posture & colouring is a perfect camouflage! (Photos Nick Garbutt)
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The adorable Costasiella kuroshimae nudibranch. The small black dots are its eyes! (Photo Lynn Wu)
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Rosy maple moths.
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Cuban land snails are amazing! (Photo ashbreurev)
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The Malabar giant squirrel. Found in the forests of India, it can grow up to 1 metre long (including its tail) and spends almost its entire life high in the treetops, rarely coming down to the ground. (Photo Massimo)
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Scientists once published an entire paper titled "Control of scrotal color in the vervet monkey." They found that the monkeys' famous blue testicles aren't caused by blue pigment, but rather by light scattering (the Tyndall effect) over a layer of melanin. (Photo Diego Delso)
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Texas horned lizard hatchlings! They are so small! (Photos Dallas Zoo)
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