Weirdest Living Things on Earth

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. 

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.

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.

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 .

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. 

  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 .

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.