50 Extremely Fascinating Animal Pictures That Will Completely And Totally Change Your Perspective On Nature

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This is what a hairless bear looks like:

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And this is what a hairless raccoon looks like:

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This is how horses fly on a plane:

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This is what a living sand dollar looks like compared with a dead one:

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Hammerhead sharks look absolutely terrifying in X-ray form:

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Speaking of terrifying, this is what an X-ray of a pregnant dog looks like:

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This is how big a giant squid is compared with a human being:

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This adorable little thing is a hummingbird’s feather:

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This is what an elephant’s tail looks like close up:

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And this is what one of those tail hairs looks like up close:

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This is how big a moose is compared with a van:

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And this is how big a moose’s tooth is:

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This is what the blowhole on a humpback whale looks like:

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This, my friends, is what a pregnant guinea pig looks like:

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This lil’ fella here is a baby flamingo:

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This is how big a blue whale’s heart is compared with a human being:

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This is what a polar bear’s paw print looks like compared with a human handprint:

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This is how giant Galápagos tortoises sleep:

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This 3,000-pound absolute unit is Lubber, the world’s largest horse back in 1930:

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Baby zebras are born with brown stripes before they eventually turn black:

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This is Big Jake, the world’s tallest horse:

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There’s a bird that looks like it has a bowl cut. My friends, meet the crested canary:

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This is what a 30-year-old cat looks like:

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Have you ever looked closely at the backs of a cat’s legs? There are whiskers there called carpal whiskers:

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This is what the head of an ant looks like super, super close up:

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In 1933, A.L. Kahn caught a 5,000-pound manta ray off the coast of Florida:

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Frogs can be very, very, very, very, very tiny:

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This is a picture of one of the last Tasmanian tigers, an animal that went extinct in 1936:

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And this is one of two remaining Northern white rhinoceros left on Earth:

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This is how big a baby kangaroo is when it’s born:

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This is what a shark’s brain looks like compared to a dolphin’s brain:

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This fella here is a Japanese spider crab (who, hand to God, is named Big Daddy), a species of crab that can grow to be 12 feet across:

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This is what a gorilla going to the dentist looks like:

Gorillas… they’re just like us!

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This is what a, uh, whale’s you-know-what looks like:

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Kiwi eggs are absolutely huge:

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And this is what a hummingbird egg looks like compared to an ostrich egg:

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This right here is a vaquita, one of the most endangered animals in the world:

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This is what the inside of a wasp’s nest looks like:

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This is what the skeleton of a python looks like:

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This is what a Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying animal ever recorded, looks like compared to a human:

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This is what a penguin’s skeleton looks like:

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This is what a bunch of fossilized dinosaur eggs look like:

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Deers shed their antlers every year. This is what an antler-less deer looks like:

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A beluga whale’s head is mostly made of fatty tissue…

Which means that the skull of a beluga whale looks like this:

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This is what a baby pigeon looks like:

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Emu eggs are absolutely beautiful:

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Both seals and sea lions have nails:

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When Hurricane Floyd hit Florida in 1999, flamingos from the Miami-Metro zoo took refuge in a bathroom to protect themselves from the storm:

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This particular breed of sheep, known as hissar, is famous for its large, ample buttocks:

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There’s a bridge specifically for crabs in Christmas Island, Australia. A crab bridge. A cridge: