Odd animals
This fish is called a unicorn tang.
Bluespine Unicorn Tang
This is a handfish.
This is a sawfish.
By Peter Kyne, Charles Darwin University - https://www.nespmarine.edu.au/listed-species-largetooth-sawfish-still-image ([1]), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Here are hairy frogfish. They do not really have hair.
This lizard is called a thorny dragon.
This bug is called a thorn moth.
This sea animal is a mantis shrimp.
This sea animal is a red-lipped batfish.
A spider crab lives deep down in the sea.
Credit: Gulf of Alaska 2004. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration. Photo on Flickr and licensed under CC BY 2.0.
This is a jumping spider.
This bug is called a panda ant. It is not really an ant. It is a wingless wasp!
This is a frigate bird. It looks odd when ...
... it puffs up its red throat. It puffs up to show off.
Photo from Pixabay is in the public domain.
This is a leaf-tailed gecko. It looks like a dead leaf.
I'm a gecko too!
This animal eats ants. It's called an anteater!
Its tongue is so long!
Photo Credit: Mehgan Murphy/Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Photo on Flickr and licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
An anteater baby can rest on mum.
A thorn bug looks like a thorn.
Photo by Judy Gallagher has been rotated and cropped. Photo is on Flickr and licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Lots of thorn bugs are on this plant.
The leafy sea dragon is a fish.
It looks like seaweed. This helps it hide from bigger fish.
This sea slug is called a blue dragon.
Photo by Sylke Rohrlach from Sydney is of a blue dragon (glaucus atlanticus). Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
The sea slug is tiny but can give you a nasty sting.
Photo is by Imtorn and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
This is a jawfish.
The jawfish dad protects mum's eggs by keeping them in his mouth. It takes about 10 days for the baby jawfish to hatch.
A jawfish can dig with its mouth. It likes to dig a tunnel in the sand under the sea for its home. It scoops up sand in its mouth and spits it out.