Animals Around the World
Found primarily in Antarctica, this flightless bird can 'fly' up to 25mph underwater.
What are Penguins?
What is a Naked Mole Rat?
This ancient cat boasted incredibly large canine teeth.
What is the Saber-tooth Cat?
These deep-sea fish often use phosphorescent lures to attract prey, giving them their name.
What are Anglerfish?
This big cat is common throughout North America and is dangerous due to its silent nature and powerful jump.
What is a Cougar, Puma, Mountain Lion, Ghost Cat, etc.
One of the many marsupials that can be found in Australia, this animal is largely a scavenger. With his gaping jaws, strong teeth, husky snarl, and bad temper this creature is often deserving of his devilish name.
What is a Tasmanian Devil?
This mammal excretes a venom which could potentially cure diabetes, lays eggs, sweats milk through their skin for their young, and have no stomach.
What is a Platypus?
Despite evolving here, this domestic animal had died out in the Americas, and was reintroduced by Europeans.
What is a Horse?
This five-limbed creatures can often regrow a lost limb, or grow a new body from its one remaining limb.
What is a Starfish/Sea Star?
This large African herbivore is known to kill nearly 500 people each year.
These giant fruit-eating bats are common in Australia.
What are Flying Foxes?
This species of lemur is the largest nocturnal primate. They have gremlin like faces, rodent like teeth, and long Crypt Keeper-style fingers which they use to knock on wood to listen for termites.
What is an Aye-Aye?
While true Velociraptors are much smaller than those in Jurassic Park, the film dinosaurs do closely resemble this animal.
What is a Utahraptor?
Cephalopods come in a variety of different shapes and sizes, although the most feared is this legendary sea monster.
What is the Giant Squid/Kraken?
These brightly colored amphibians were named due to a native Indian tribe running their arrowheads over the skin of this animal.
What are Poison Dart Frogs?
These primates, native only to Madagascar, usually have large eyes, foxlike faces, monkeylike bodies, and long busy tails which can be longer than their whole body.
What is a Lemur?
This animal, found only in Asia and Africa, with their overlapping armored scales look as if they are a cross between an armadillo and a pinecone. They also have long tongues and stink glands like a skunk.
What is a Pangolin?
Despite its name, which means egg thief, this dinosaur is known to have carefully brooded its own eggs.
What is an Oviraptor?
This animal, unchanged for millions of years, boats truly blue blood.
What are Horseshoe Crabs?
The dark spots on this reptile's snout are organs that help it sense movement while underwater.
What is a Crocodilian? (Crocodile, Alligator, Gharial, etc.)
These South American animals are the largest rodents in the world, weighing in at 150 pounds and growing up to 4 feet long.
What is a Capybara?
This amphibian is critically endangered, due in part to being a staple part of the Aztec diet; they don't metamorphose, leaving the adults gilled and aquatic, and they are well known for their ability to regrow limbs.
What is an Axolotl?
This carnivorous dinosaur, whose name means 'carnivorous bull', lived during the late Cretaceous. Other than his massive horns he was a close look-a-like to Tyrannosaurus Rex.
What is Carnotaurus?
The eggs of these creatures were once thought to be the purses of mermaids.
What is a Shark, Skate, or Ray?
This snake is one of the most venomous in the world and is named for it's dark mouth and tongue.
What is a Black Mamba?