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Frill-Necked Lizard

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  The frill-necked Lizard are also known as the frilled-lizard or frilled-dragon are found mainly in northern Australia and southern New Guinea.

Venus Fly Trap

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The Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey—mostly insects and arachnids. The plants common name refers to the Roman goddess of love, Venus, whereas the genus name refers to Dione.

Low's Pitcher Plant

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Nepenthes lowii (pronounced /nɨˈpɛnθiːz ˈloʊwiaɪ/), or Low's Pitcher-Plant,[1] is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Borneo.

Boojum Tree

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The boojum or (Spanish) cirio (Fouquieria columnaris, syn. Idria columnaris) is a tree in the family Fouquieriaceae, whose other members include the ocotillos. It is nearly endemic to the Baja California Peninsula, with only a small population in the Sierra Bacha of Sonora.

Titan Arum

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The titan arum or Amorphophallus titanum (from Ancient Greek amorphos, "without form, misshapen" + phallos, "penis", and titan, "giant") is a flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world.

Rafflesia

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Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants. It was discovered in the Indonesian rain forest by an Indonesian guide working for Dr. Joseph Arnold in 1818, and named after Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the leader of the expedition.

Sphynx

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Sphynx is a breed of cat known for its lack of coat. They generally have wedge-shaped heads and sturdy, heavy bodies. Another distinct quality is their full round abdomen, also known as pot bellies.

Pygmy Marmoset

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The Pygmy Marmoset is a New-world monkey native to the rainforest canopies of the Amazon Basin in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. It is said to be notably being the smallest monkey in the world at just over 100 grams (3.5 oz).

Proboscis Monkey

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The proboscis monkey or long-nosed monkey is a reddish-brown Old world monkey that can be usually found in south-east Asian island of Borneo. Its most distinctive trait is the male's large protruding nose and it has been suggested that the female proboscis monkey prefers big-nosed males.

Tarsier

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Although the tarsier was once more widespread, all the species living today can be found only on the islands of Southeast Asia.

Long-Beaked Echidna

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The long-beaked echidna make up one of the two genera of echidnas. The spiny monotromes which can be found in New Guinea and the long-beaked that lives in Australia. 

Guineafowl Puffer

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The guineafowl puffer is a pufferfish usually found in Indo-Pacific and Eastern Pacific. It has a rounded body covered with prickles and generally brown or golden in color, depending on its life stage. The color highly varies.

Axolotl

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The Axolotl or Mexican salamander is a neotenic mole salamander, closely related to the tiger salamander. The species originates from numerous lakes underlying Mexico City, such as Lake Xochimilco.

Shoebill

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The Shoebill also known as whale-head or Shoe-billed stork, is a very large stork-like bird.The species was only discovered by ornithologists in the 19th century .

Viper Fish

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A viperfish is a deepwater fish with long, needle-like teeth and hinged lower jaws. It is one of the fiercest predators in the very deep part of the sea and is believed to attack its prey by luring its victim with a light producing organ called a photopore. 

Dumbo Octopus

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  Living at extreme depths, and among the rarest of octopuses, the Dumbo octopus gets its name from its ears which loosely resemble those of the Disney character, Dumbo .

Frog Fish

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Frogfishes from family Antennariidae, are a type of anglerfish in the order Lophiiformes. They are known as anglerfishes in Australia, where 'frogfish' refers to a different type of fish.

Indian Gharial

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The Indian gharial is a critically endangered species and one of the longest of all living crocodiles. They are characterized by its extremely long, thin jaws, regarded as an adaptation to its predominantly fish diet.

Leafy Sea Dragons

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Leafy seadragons  or or Glauert's seadragon is a marine fish in the family Syngnathidae, which also includes the seahorses.  The name derived from their leaf-like appendages that makes them remarkably camouflaged. 

Sun Bear

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The Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus) are also known as the "honey bear" which refers to its voracious appetite for honeycombs and honey. They are also the smallest of all bears in which adults are about 120–150 cm (47–59 in) long and weighs 27–65 kg (60–140 lb). Males are 10–20% larger than females.

Loris

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  The slender loris inhabits tropical moist woodland forests found in India, Sri Lanka, and parts in southeast Asia. This species is said to be threatened by habitat loss.

Hagfish

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Hagfish are eel-shaped slime-producing marine animals and occasionally called slime eels. They are the only known living animals that have a skull but not a vertebral column.

Saiga Antelope

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The saiga antelope originally inhabited the vast area of the Eurasian steppe zone from the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains and Caucasus into Dzungaria and Mongolia. Today, they can only be found in Russia and Kazakhstan since they have been critically endangered.

Aye-Aye

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The aye-aye is a lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar and the world's largest nocturnal primate. It shares a lot in common with the woodpecker - it taps trees to find grubs. When food is located it uses its rodent-like teeth to gnaw a hole, then digs them out with its long middle finger.

Long-Eared Jerboa

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The long eared jerboa is a nocturnal mouse-like rodent that has a long tail, long legs and extremely large ears. Their fur is light reddish/brown with a white underside. Their tails are covered in fine hairs the same color as their body and have a black and white tuft on the end.

Yeti Crab

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  Discovered in 2005 in the South Pacific Ocean, this creature was dubbed the "yeti lobster" or "yeti crab". It lives at a depth of 2,200 metres on hydrothermal vents and cold seeps along the Pacific-Antarctic.

Blob Fish

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The blobfish is a gelatinous mass with a density slightly less than that of the water it occupies. This helps it maintain buoyancy without expending energy on swimming.

Sea Pigs

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Scotoplanes, also known as seapigs live on, or just underneath, the bottom of the ocean and feed on the mud of the seafloor specifically on the abyssal plain in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean, typically at depths of over 1000 meters. Scientists haven't yet worked out how they are such a successful deep-sea creature

Hispaniolan Solenodon

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The Hispaniolan solenodon also known as the Haitian Solenodon or agouta is a strange looking shrew-like creature with a long snout and specialized teeth capable of delivering venom.

Star Nosed Mole

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The star-nosed moles can be easily identified by its snout that has 22 fleshy tentacles which they use to identify food by touch. They are also covered with thick, blackish brown, water-repellant fur and  large, scaled feet and a long, thick tail.