20 Animals You Won’t Believe Are Real

Think you’ve seen it all when it comes to the animal kingdom? Think again! These 20 animals are so weird, they could have come straight out of a fantasy novel.

1. Tree Kangaroo

2. Mata mata turtle

3. Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat

4. Brown Frillback Pigeon

5. Visored Bat

6. Spectral bat

7. Painted bat

8. Roofed Turtle

9. Knob-Billed Duck

10. Male violet-backed starling

11. Great-eared nightjar

12. Muraközi Horse

13. Jaggedhead Gurnard

14. The Etruscan Shrew

15. Jellybean caterpillar

16. Silky Anteater

17. Owl Butterfly Cocoon

18. Giant stink bug nymph

19. Philippine flying lemur

20. Helmeted hornbill