Scary Animals: The 10 Creepiest Animals in the World
Some animals like dogs and possums pretend to be dead sometimes, but the Polycarpa mytiligera takes it to another level. It's a weird sea creature that looks like a tube and sticks to underwater surfaces.
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Early humans were really scared of snakes, so they learned to stay away from them. If you're scared of the idea of a snake flying, it's probably because of this fear that's been passed down.
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There are about 400 types of shrews, and most are harmless like mice. But the short-tailed shrew is different. It looks cute but can be creepy because it has venom.
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The goblin shark is a very old type of shark that's been around for 125 million years. They're special because they're the only ones of their kind known to exist. Luckily, they live deep in the ocean
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Since 2013, people have called the blob fish the ugliest animal in the world. But its strange, jelly-like body is actually a way for it to live in a deep, dark place underwater. It lives in the ocean near Australia, about 2,000 to 4,000 feet below the surface.
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These scary animals from the tropics don't harm humans and are calm around researchers, even when they're very close. But their weird shoe-shaped beak is still a scary weapon in the wild.
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The aye-aye is a strange-looking lemur from Madagascar. Some folks think it's so odd-looking that it's actually cute, but the people who live near it don't usually feel that way.
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The big, old megarachne was a spider that could grow almost as long as two rulers. But if we don't count spiders that are gone forever, the scariest spider we know about is probably the Goliath bird-eating spider.
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Imagine a really scary crab, like the kind of scary spider that eats birds. Well, this crab is just as frightening. It's big and can eat things like rats, chickens, and even kittens! And if that's not creepy enough, these crabs don't mind eating each other.
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If you think millipedes and centipedes look scary with all their legs and weird features, wait till you hear about Arthropleura. Luckily, they're extinct now. They looked like big millipedes, but way bigger - some could grow over eight feet long!
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