I attended a sketching group today. I always get a children’s book about animals, and sometimes they feature unusual species that I have either never heard of, or haven’t thought about in a long time.
What other animals do you think about that would blow people’s minds? Animals that are very unusual for their taxonomic group (e.g. a Wolverine Frog, or a poisonous bird).
(I think deep sea stuff might be too easy, because so much of it is crazy and mind-blowing, but all contributions are welcome!)
Only known from the type locality, where only a handful of specimens were collected during the species’ discovery. Then it was forgotten about completely, until some recently dead shells were found in 2005 suggesting the species may still be (barely) extant.
As the 2017 survey failed at its main goal (establishing the status of these possibly extinct Tahitian species), we don’t know if this species is still extant.
got to see a couple Laphria (L.grossa if I had to guess) and their sick af, so far it’s been individuals flying up and down the edge of a forest and field and perching to rest and eat. Such a cool family.
I do find effiency in nature interesting, especially in how many species “decided” that females dont really need everything to reproduce. Like in many bagworm moths (But to use the one most common to me (Liothula omnivora, the **common bag moth) “**Only the male metamorphoses into a recognisable moth. The adult female never leaves the bag and has no wings, merely an abdomen and rudimentary head and thorax. “ -wiki.
I seem to remember reading about a small, carnivorous species of deer, a fairly small species, native to China, southeast Asia, or possibly Indonesia/Pacific Islands? I vaguely recall it being a fairly credible article, but when I Googled it the only thing I could come up with was the water deer (Hydropotes inermis)Water deer - Wikipedia which have fangs but are herbivorous.
