10 Animals With Evolutionary Traits Plucked Straight Out of a Nightmare: Quick Facts

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Japanese spider crab

Velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis)

Galapagos, or red-lipped, batfish (Ogcocephalus darwini)

Common eastern froglet (Crinia signifera).

Three blobfish (Psychrolutes phrictus) with pale, gelatinous bodies and drooping faces rest on a metal surface.

Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex)

Gharial, or gavial (Gavialis gangeticus)

Star-nosed mole

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