The 10 most disturbing animals on Earth

1. Striking Bright Green Snake

Commonly known as Gumprecht’s green pit viper, is found in the Southeast Asian region of Greater Mekong.

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2. Snakefish

Snakefish can be up to over a metre in length and over 6 kilograms in weight. Most snakefish are 2-3 feet long. Some describe snakefish as having a voracious appetite, often consuming all other fish in a lake or pond and even eating its young. It can slither across land, staying out of water for up to three days, to find new sources of food. Norton also warns that once on land snakeheads can eat almost any small animal in its path. They have even attacked people in China who got too close to snakehead egg nesting areas.

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3. Giant Isopod

This Terminator look-alike is a Giant Isopod (Bathynomus giganteus), a carnivorous crustacean that spends its time scavenging the deep ocean floor, up to 6,000ft down on the seabed where there is no light. In the pitch black and cold, they survive by feasting on dead and decaying fish and other marine animals.

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4. Aye-Aye

Considered by locals as a harbinger of misfortune, the Aye-aye is one of the world’s most rare and bizarre looking primates. To the Malagasy people, the aye-aye is magical, and believed to bring death to the village it appears in; therefore they’re often killed on sight. The aye-aye is the world’s largest nocturnal primate with an average head and body length of 16 inches (40 centimeters), a long bushy tail of 2 feet (61 centimeters) long, and weighs about 4 pounds (2 kilos). The Aye-aye has large beady eyes, black hair, and large spoon-shaped ears. It has 5-fingered hands with flat nails, with a middle finger up to 3 times the length of the others.

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5. Star-Nosed Mole

One of the most intriguing stars in the universe is right here on Earth: the eleven pairs of pink fleshy appendages ringing the snout of the star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata). His star is an extraordinary touch organ with more than 25,000 minute sensory receptors, called Eimer’s organs, with which this hamster-sized mole feels its way around.

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6. The Frilled Lizard

The frilled lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingi) is a yellowish-brown australian lizard has got a large frill of skin to the sides of the neck and throat. It is about 90 cm/35 in long, and when is angry or alarmed, it erects its frill, which may be as much as 25cm/10 in in diameter, thus giving itself the appearance of being larger than it really is. Frilled lizards are generally tree-living but may spend some time on the ground, where they run with their forelimbs in the air.

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7. Leaf-Tailed Gecko

The Giant leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus fimbriatus) is endemic to Madagascar and the islands Nosy Bohara and Nosy Mangabe. These geckos live in tropical rain forests and reach a total length of 330 mm. A large nocturnal gecko, by day it plasters it self to a small tree trunk and rests head down. If disturbed it will raise it tail and head, open its mouth and scream… and call his mom.

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8. Kerivoula Kachinensis

Another of the species found in one of the world’s last scientifically unexplored regions, Asia’s Greater Mekong, the Kerivoula Kachinensis is one of the most disturbing bats ever found.

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9. The Naked Mole Rat

The Naked Mole Rat has little hair (hence the common name) and wrinkled pink or yellowish skin. The naked mole rat is also of interest because it is extraordinarily long-lived for a rodent of its size (up to 28 years). The secret of their longevity is debated, but is thought to be related to the fact that they can shut down their metabolism during hard times, and so prevent oxidative damage.

 The 10 most disturbing animals on Earth

10. Puss Caterpillar

The inch-long Puss Caterpillar is generously coated in long, luxuriant hair-like setae, making it resemble a tiny Persian cat. The ‘fur’ of the larva contains venomous spines that cause extremely painful reactions in human skin upon contact. The reactions are sometimes localized to the affected area but are often very severe, radiating up a limb and causing burning, swelling, nausea, headache, abdominal distress, rashes, blisters, and sometimes chest pain, numbness, or difficulty breathing (Eagleman 2008). Additionally, it is not unusual to find sweating from the welts or hives at the site of the sting. M. opercularis can be found on oaks, elms, citrus and other trees, and many garden plants such as roses and ivy. It is distributed throughout the southern United States, Mexico, and parts of Central America. The larva does not spin a real cocoon, rather, it separates from its furry skin and uses it as a protective covering while it pupates.

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13 Comments on "The 10 most disturbing animals on Earth"

  1. Kevin on Sun, 1st Feb 2009 7:34 pm 

    The puss caterpillar is no joke. We have them here in Missouri. My sister had to go to the emergency room after one fell on her out of an oak tree. She couldn’t breath and her arm swelled up. A buddy of mine had one sting his leg while he was mowing the yard. It wasn’t as bad as what happened to my sister, but he has a caterpillar shaped scar to this day.

  2. linke.rs on Sun, 1st Feb 2009 8:09 pm 

    Cudne Zivotinje…

    UUUU ove zivotinje su strasno cudne, odvratne i ruzne, sem ove zmije koja je na pocetku :D…

  3. Wheh on Sun, 1st Feb 2009 11:20 pm 

    I’m no expert, but that first picture looks an awful lot like a (non-poisonous) emerald boa…

  4. Ahnold on Mon, 2nd Feb 2009 12:08 am 

    Number 3 looks much more like the Predator than the Terminator. Who is your daddy and what does he do?

  5. damon on Mon, 2nd Feb 2009 5:54 am 

    yeah.. the first picture is deff. an emerald green tree boa… the jaw muscles at the rear of the head tell all… a vipers jaw muscles are smaller because they dont need to hold onto their prey… that and well… just look up green tree boa and the above picture appears

  6. spellathon on Sat, 7th Feb 2009 9:18 pm 

    Gumprecht’s green pit viper looks more dangerous and can hide himself anywhere in the greens.

  7. igglefish on Sat, 25th Apr 2009 8:43 am 

    I reacently moved

  8. hikari on Sat, 25th Apr 2009 8:45 am 

    i reacently moved from Japan,so plaese excues my spelling,i wuoldn’t want to bump into that catrepillar

  9. demo-man on Sun, 3rd May 2009 5:27 pm 

    when they say giant isopod is it really big or what

  10. iakjsbdc on Sun, 31st May 2009 7:30 am 

    all of these animals are punny ass hell

  11. Chrıs Anton on Thu, 17th Sep 2009 8:24 pm 

    Waawwww :D Goog Photo

  12. tess burns on Wed, 4th Nov 2009 3:15 pm 

    i did a report on the fifth one the star nosed mole

  13. Green Wallpapers on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 7:49 pm 

    Wow … Great Post. The 10 most disturbing animals on Earth Information and Pictures are very nice.

    Thanks For The Information.

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