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We exist in a living, dynamic world flourishing with diversity and beauty, from the tiniest of kittens to the noble and towering sequoia. Everywhere you look our planet is chock full of astounding animals and exotic plants that amaze and delight us each day!
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But now let’s cast off the rose-tinted glasses and take a closer look at some of this diversity, especially the creatures that go bump (and screech and hiss) in the night. Let us examine the undersides of logs, the abysmal depths of the sea, and beneath the canopies of the remotest rain forests. Herein lie such freaks of nature and abominations of biology that one might think they were straight from Planet X or at least some secret lab here on Earth. 

 Either way, this motley collection of creepazoids is chilling enough to lend us nightmares and the fact they are real and not borrowed from the world of science fiction is plenty scary in itself. 

 So let us sit back and review this compilation of monstrosities that could have sent Marvin the Martian packing, but remember: no feeding the plants – they bite!

10 GLOBSTERS
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Picture this disturbing scenario: you are pleasantly walking along the beach enjoying an idyllic and sunny, frolicsome day at the ocean - when suddenly there it is right in front of you! – some monstrously-humungous and unrecognizable glob of putrid flesh (commonly known as a ‘globster’) washed in from the depths. 

 This actually happens frequently around the world, with some such discoveries triggering DNA testing for proper identification. We’re talking dead whales, porpoises, squids, even land mammals, all in some advanced state of decomposition to the point they are unrecognizable and appear to be from out of this world! 

 Others are grotesque and alien-looking simply because they were plucked up from the great black abyss, somehow having been sucked up and cast out into a harsh, terrestrial world of sunlight and warmth. …

 9 SLIME MOLDS MAKE GOOD PETS
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Slime molds are single-celled, eukaryotic organisms (which means they contain a nucleus and not much else: think amoeba) that can grow up to thirteen feet (4 m) and exist all over the world, especially upon forest floors rich in rotting vegetation. 

 They have no brain nor nervous system yet they seem to make intelligent, intelligent decisions when in search of food sources, often oozing, creeping, and flawlessly navigating through laboratory mazes at the speed of 1 cm (0.4 in) per hour. And with any luck, the reward will be its favorite dinner of porridge oats, which it will encase, dissolve and absorb, in that order. 

 These mindlessly-simple life forms resemble fungi and manifest into interesting shapes (one of which is dog vomit), and they spend their lives in the wild boldly oozing forth and merging with other slime mold cells, all the while branching out pseudopods in search of bacteria, yeast, and actual fungus for nourishment. 

 They bring to mind, both in appearance and motivation, the cinematic “Blob” (1958), though in miniature. …

8 ZOMBIE FUNGUS
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One of the most horrible creepy-crawlies in the world is the revolting tarantula, of that we can all agree. 

 Now imagine it had an arch enemy so much more sinister and repulsive that we were actually rooting for the wellbeing of the spider! 

 It’s called Cordyceps, and it’s a jungle fungus found in tropical areas around the world, predominantly Asia.

 It has the hideously-unique capacity to invade the bodies of insects and spiders, replacing the host’s tissue with its own and completely transforming it into both flesh and behavior. …

7 INVASION OF THE BROWN SNOT ALGAE

And, hypothetically, if a slime mold and a zombie fungus ever were to run off and elope, one of their likely offspring might possibly be the brown snot algae (at least in spirit), which is proliferating profusely and clogging rivers and other waterways around the world. 

 The assailant has been nicknamed Didymo (Didymosphenia geminata), and scientists are uncertain whether or not the diatom (alga) is spreading unchecked or was already indigenous worldwide to begin with.

 It seems to have started in British Columbia, Canada, in the late 80’s when thick mats of brown slime began contaminating several kilometers of river. And from there it spread southward, onward and so forth… …

6 FISHER CATS NEED NOT APPLY
And finally on to an actual critter, not that you’d want this particular one in your backyard…

Fisher cats (Martes pennant), often simply called fishers, are the second-largest member of the weasel family averaging 32 to 40 inches (80 to 100 cm) in length. 

 They are neither proper cats nor do they catch fish (unless they stumble across one while raiding your trashcan); what they are is excellent and efficient killing machines with long, sharp claws and teeth, and they are also the bane of suburban and woodland residents throughout Canada and the Northern US. 

 These little brutes are egregiously blood-thirsty, sometimes killing just for the joy of it, and they climb trees much like the squirrels they frequently chase, often screeching like banshees from the upper limbs. 

 Tarzan would probably run from one of these things! They attack and eat just about any type of rodent, mammal or bird they can possibly overtake, and as the burbs encroach upon its territory, or, as in the opinion of many people, vice versa, this conniving critter is rapidly losing the fear of humans and our pets! …

5 HAVE YOU TAKEN A GOOD LOOK AT CRABS LATELY?

We all like crab cakes, crab dip, and crab bisque, and we think amiably of this roly-poly, little sea-creatures with their cute, wobbly eyestalks and crazy sideways-walk. 

 Often we ponder upon that colorful Disney crab Sebastian and smile. But if you knew what some crabs actually look like you’d either lose your appetite for seafood or just spring for lobster! …


4 TREE TUMBO, THAT ANCIENT EYESORE
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Most visitors to the Namib Desert in coastal southwest Africa often pass by the tree tumbo (Welwitschia mirabilis) without thinking it to be a tree. 

 Others pass by without even acknowledging it as a lifeform! And no wonder: this low-lying, veggie-heap looks like a cross between something the cat dragged in and something the garbage disposal belched out!

 And even though the tree tumbo appears to be refuse that should have been hauled, let us examine this ancient plant a bit more closely (but not too closely!) …

3 AND NOW ANOTHER GHASTLY TREE – THE STRANGLER FIG

Imagine that you’re just standing around, minding your own business - living the life! - when suddenly the strong and unbreakable grasp of a stranger entangles you in its arms…and the miscreant’s long and slithery limbs continue to encompass your entire body up until the point you realize you are being entirely suppressed…and…slowly...strangled… …

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/strangler_figs.htm
https://www.britannica.com/plant/strangler-fig-tree

2 JACKAL FOOD
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In the dry, coastal thickets of southern Africa, there is a plant so ugly and repulsive the kindest words of endearment the locals can call this thing is ‘jackal food’ (Hydnora Africana). 

 It lives its life for the most part underground as a parasitic network of stems and roots subsisting off succulent plants of the genus Euphorbia, and it rears its ugly head (technically a flower, believe it or not) when it comes time to pollinate and reproduce. 

 This plant has scales instead of leaves, it lacks chlorophyll, and its ‘head’ has a very odd resemblance to Pacman on crack. These ‘flowers’ stink unpleasantly like dung, a trait which attracts small beetles to their ‘mouths’, as if their appearance wasn’t bad enough. 

 This parasitic atrocity is so horrible it makes a Venus flytrap seem like a bouquet of baby’s breath in comparison! …

1 INVASION OF THE…LADYBUGS??Image result for LADYBUGS

Ladybugs, or ladybirds as they are known in the UK, are probably the cutesiest of all insects.

 Even the faintest of heart delight in their fluttery arrival and many people consider them to be good luck. 

 Now imagine thousands of them bringing good luck right to your front door…and your back door, and your patio, and your rooftop. And, as if eager to bestow even more good tidings, they come into your house through any opening they can possibly find! This happens to homes in eastern states throughout October into November as these little, 

 unwanted houseguests seek a warm place to hole up for the winter. They seem to pick out individual houses, often completely ignoring neighboring structures, and the crawling, writhing swarm of little red insects can be very distressing to the occupants within. People have had to remove them from their homes with shovels!
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1.Coprophagia.
Coprophagia is a term that refers to the consumption of feces. Yes, poop. 

 Even though it may sound unsettling, it is a behavioral mechanism developed to consume all the nutrients in the food completely. 

 chimpanzees take to such behavior seldom when the food they eat is only partially digested and excreted. To make use of all the nutrients present, these creatures consume their excreta again. This is in contrast to rabbits that regularly consume a part of their feces called night feces, as they are nutrient dense. 

 2.Non-destructive parental cannibalism.
Non-destructive parental cannibalism is the phenomenon in which an adult consumes a part of the young ones without posing any potential harm to the young ones. 

 The Dracula ants are accustomed to feeding on the blood of its own larva by chewing a hole onto the larva. Vampire finches consume the blood of its unborn.

 3.Herbivores eating meat.
Herbivores, the vegetarians of the animal kingdom can also consume animals or animal parts that are found to be lying around from time to time. 

 It is hard to imagine cows and deer eating meat but they do so when they have a hard time finding nutrient-rich food. 

 4.The mate eaters
Some insects like the Preying mantis, black widow spider, and jumping spiders are among few species of insects that eat their mates. To ensure that their genes are passed on the males surrender themselves to their mates.
This may range from the female mantis that bites off the male mantis’ head during copulation to the female black widow spiders that devour their mates when the male place themselves between the fangs of the female. 

 On the other hand, the female jumping spiders tend to munch on the male spiders that fail to attract them sexually or advance them at wrong times. 

 5.The puke eating skua birds
Yes, you read it right. These birds are just too lazy to find a prey so they bully and pester their fellow skua birds or other birds until the victim pukes all the content.

 This partially digested food becomes the meal for our violent skua bird. To top this, skua birds are also famous for its liking towards baby penguins

 6.Stone and iron piece eaters
The ostriches consume rocks and pebbles along with their meals to aid them in digestion. 

 Some even go the next step and store the stones in the gizzard which is one of the 3 parts of the birds’ stomach to help them with digestion in the future.

 With a strong stomach and the capacity to digest everything easily, the ostriches are capable of eating iron pieces too. 

 7.tear drinkers
When it is hard for butterflies, moths, and bees to obtain sodium through their diet, they go after tears of animals including humans. Some moths have specialized appendages that allow them to drink tears from sleeping birds without irritating the birds. 

 The Amazonian moths are known to drink the tears of the turtles.

 Some bees called sweat bees feed on both the tears and the sweat of humans. Such bees tend to prefer human tears over other food items even when all of them were accessible equally to the bees. 

 The bees also obtain some proteins from the tears.

 8.The mice that eat their own tails
Mice don’t like long tails as they make them susceptible to infections and pain. 

 So they bite and chew off their tails. 

 9. Animals that drink and smoke
Primates like vervet monkeys have developed a liking for alcohol and they are also found to taste drinks left unguarded by people. 

 The liking had developed as a result of regular consumption of fermented sugarcane. Some of them tend to be extreme drinkers and create ruckus too. 

 The Indonesian orangutan started smoking when someone threw a lit cigarette into the cage and from then has got addicted to smoking. Just like humans, it shows withdrawal symptoms like throwing tantrums if it does not get its daily dose. 

 10. Osteophagia
Even though bones are one of the hardest materials which are indigestible in most cases, some animals like zebras and giraffes are capable of ingesting and digesting this calcium and phosphorous-rich meals.

 The osedax worms play an important role in clearing up the ocean by consuming the bones of dead whales. It is also known to feed on a variety of bones such as cow bones.
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