Dw he will end up playing a childrens card game, be good in like 1 duel vs a Dino guy then be slapped around by side characters and lose more and more credibility as a duelist. Shouldn't have thrown the exodia pieces into the ocean, bastard...
Fun fact: some indigenous legends say that the harpy eagle also eats children, which I wouldn't doubt considering they certainly have the size for it and at a distance a child might look similar to a small monkey.
@@tylerian4648 I would say both, but one has better means to do so but not sure if an animal has a capacity to connect the dots that it was a revenge and not just some random attack (not sure how many attacks harpy eagle usually gets tho)
Fun fact about Harpy Eagles, they are completely fearless around humans, it’s to the point people can walk up wild ones and the birds are completely unbothered, they barely acknowledge your existence. Unfortunately that makes them pretty easy to hunt, it’s pretty easy to kill a big target that doesn’t immediately recognizes danger and probably thinks you’re pretty chill too. Large wild predatory animals that aren’t bothered by people and can sometimes be pretty sweet with us but terrorize other animals just fascinates me like the Harpy Eagle, Shoebill Stork, or Orcas.
@@tuep Yeah in captivity they have attacked people, but they're being forced to stay in a relatively small area where they can't roam and forced to do tricks for the entertainment of their captures, it's understandable that they would lash out but in the wild there has never been an Orca killing a person in recorded history, so ironically I'd rather come face to face with a wild Orca than a "tamed" Orca.
@@richardmorgan3665 Orcas are like elephants: they don't often see us as a threat or a food source, so generally they have no reason to attack us. They're also smart enough to be curious about us, and when we return that curiosity, the interactions can be pretty cool. But just because of their size, if they get angry or scared and we're in the smack zone, we tend to die. They're also both intelligent enough to suffer from mental and emotional trauma and to connect that trauma to humans where relevant. Elephants are one of the animals most known for developing problems in zoos - problems that, in a human, would indicate being mentally unwell, even if people tend to not want to attach the term "mental health" to animal care. They'll do things like pacing, rocking, making the same repetitive motion over and over for hours. I don't think most zoos currently have the means to keep large, intelligent animals ethically, which is unfortunate because zoos really can do a lot of good when they're run well.
Great example of: "Big eats small" being way more accurate then "predator or prey species" In their early stages they hide from birds. And later the birds hide from them, which is hard because they climb.
@@Razgriz_Ace18 I wonder if they were moving chloroplasts because cryptosporidium called. It would like to remind everyone it used to be a chloroplast before it became a parasite of almost every animal species on Earth.
The sturddlefish is the only time i think calling a creature a abomination is justified... All other strange creatures were evolved to look strange by the place they live... This thing is a literal freak accident of Nature
Think my favourite obscure animal is the Margay. A small cat that hunts monkeys *in the trees* by mimicking the cries of a baby monkey then ambushing any adults that come to investigate. It can also turn it's paws 180 degrees so it's just as good going down or across a tree as it is going up. It also looks like an Ocelot that's forever stuck as a kitten so it's adorable to look at.
true!!!! anyone who says they're ugly - how about we put you in their habitat (at the bottom of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific ocean, 2000-4000 feet deep) and see how you look?
As someone who's had their lunch stolen in the office fridge for too many times, I can respect the aardwolf. I'm almost tempted to do the same to deter stolen fud.
Humans dont have their smell or taste so evolve to discern to whom that "marker" belongs but I guess they will know it isnt theirs modern problems sometimes require animalistic solutions
I will never be able to comprehend what would drive someone to steal someone else's lunch. Like, what goes through their head? Do they feel shame? Do they feel smug?
There are sandwich bags you can get that make it look like the food inside has mold on it. Personally, I've found that drawing a single large eye on my lunch box lid and another on the front was enough to cut lunch thefts down to almost none.
@@gyrrakavianfun fact the ancient Greeks used to do the same thing to deter crime, the evil eye was a common symbol used to deter theft and crime and it was literally just a giant picture of an eye, which modern Studies have shown is psychologically alarming at some level and makes criminals slightly nervous to commit crimes around it, add a busy workplace that anyone could walk in at any time and Bam instant modern-day evil eye protection
My favorite obscure animal fact is a hyrax (a small elephant relative that looks like an ewok and prairie dog had a baby) secretes solid urine that humans use as a perfume ingredient! I think a lot of people know about ambergris and maybe even castoreum being used as perfume ingredients, maybe even know about civit paste. These are what perfumers call the "animal" scents in perfuming.
I was aware of the other animal products in perfumery, but not from hyraxes. Deer musk is an especially ancient one. What is the " "ingredient" (it feels very weird to call it that) that hyraxes produce called?
4:24 fun fact harpy eagles are end game birds for falconers, because if you mess up once with these birds they will never forgive you. and they will hold a grudge, so you just have to release them and try again
Mine is a bit of a stretch as its technically a Bacteria, but I remember writing a couple thousand word essay on it about 6-7 years ago. Thermococcus peptonophilus is a type of Archaea that hangs around hydrothermal vents on the "chimney walls". It harvests energy from the hydrogen gas or methane that the vent spits out and that's how it survives. They can survive up to 120 degrees celsius but generally like chilling at around 100. Pretty metal if you ask me, and weird. Imagine huffing earth farts to survive.
The maned wolf is a member of the canine family, along with wolves, jackals, coyotes, and domestic dogs. This South American mammal looks like a mixture between a fox and a wolf, but in reality, it is not closely related to either. In fact, they aren’t closely related to any other canines. Their closest living relatives are bush dogs. They Stand at 35 inches tall and their ears are also quite long, typically measure 7 in. tall. Thick fur covers the entire creature, and the hair on the back of its neck is denser and more distinct. This is where the name maned wolf comes from. They got lanky legs, dance on top of prey hiding underground, and their pee smells like weed. Zoos have had full on police investigations come in because of the smell. :)
They are also 1 - have a symbiotic relationship with a plant species popularly known as "lobeira", where maned wolves eat the plant's fruit and help disperse it's seeds 2 - are ridiculously people shy, to the point pups raised by humans since an early age still don't want to interact with us once released into large enclosures or back into the wild 3 - might be actually technically an invasive species. They come from a biome called "Atlantic woodland", which is all but extinguished today. But have migrated into the Cerrado and seem to live all nice and dandy there, despite the substantial differences between the two biomes
The sound they make is also called a "Roar-bark" and can be heard for some distance similar to wolf howls. Though it would be significantly more concerning if heard and unknown. They sound like a beast, and it's very cool.
Mine are sea angels. Mainly because they're serenely eerie. They're semi translucent, with a red glowing 'halo' inside their upper bodies/head, with 'angel wings' for fins and 'rabbit ears' on their head. Until of course they try to eat something, and their 'head' bursts open into an entire maw of tentacles. They're a swimming slug, and they're really small. Like 5cm max. Probably for the best of course, last thing we need is Lovecraft's version of a mermaid actually being big enough to cause us distress.
It's very sweet of you to make my mom feel desirable. With age, a husband that's been dead for decades, and a double mastectomy, she's had a lot of difficulty getting laid. Thank you for keeping her company, it means the world to all of us.
I love chinese water deer, those 'fangs' may be tusks but they still look simultaneously adorable and metal as hell ...also if we're talking about paleobiology, i have so many i could yap about for hours
Dearest Commenters, Allow me to convince you of the very best of the bizarre; Splash-splishin' in from the Ordovician, at an approximate 25cm (or 9ish inches) long, The best fish to ever be the worst fish. may I present- *THE SACABAMBASPIS.* With an armored head, and a face you either hate or love depending on which of the recreations you look at. (the one from the Helsinki museum is my favorite). The Sacabambaspis was a species of jawless fish- we all wish- was still around. Straight from the shallow waters off the continental margins of Gondwana, it is the best known of the Arandaspids that existed around 470ish million years ago! due to its lack of jaws, its mouth was lined with small boney plates, which were presumably movable so that it could use "Suction Feeding"! A type of feeding used by modern seahorses- which are known to have one of the highest hunting success rates of any creature, at a staggering 90%! Sacabambaspis however, swam more like a tadpole than a fish. because they decided it would be a great idea to never evolve fins! No pelvic fins, no pectoral fins, no dorsal fins, just barely a tail fin! and that's it! They did however, seem to have a sensory system that allowed them to detect the directions and distance of even the slightest movements in the water around them! though perhaps not the strangest of the ancient ocean life- (I'm looking at you Anomalocaris, Opabinia, Hallucigenia, and assorted Cambrian creatures- with love of course.) I firmly believe the Sacabambaspis to be the Panicle of Prehistoric Pizzaz. Though my hints have been subtle, and my machinations near certainly undetected, you may have been able to guess that the Sacabambaspis is my favorite fish! But admittedly, all the Arandaspids are pretty great, so you cant really go wrong there. (I know if you look up Arandaspid/Arandaspida, what will come up is probably going the be something called the "Arandaspis". which IS a member of the Arandaspid species, but is not the only guy. I can most assuredly assure you.) in conclusion? Sacabambaspis best fish, no contest. and even if there was a contest? The Sacabambaspis just has better theme music. (ex: Sacabambaspis (English Cover) from Will Stetson. or the Original Japanese version by yakamochi_na) though of course, there are other songs, too. And with that, my friends, enemies, and assorted rats who wandered in from the garbage out back- I bid you the fondest adieu, and good night!
One of my biology professors did his thesis on Nematomorpha (Gordian worms). They're parasitic worms who mostly infest predatory insects and freaked me out so hard in the lecture. He showed us a video of an infected Mantis put into a water container and the worm literally crawled out of its ass because they live without a host as adults. Usually they alter their host's behavior to have them jump into bodies of water. So, behavior altering, ass crawling worm with relatives (Nematoda) who infect humans (he showed graphic medical pictures for those). Honorable mention to Priapulida for looking like THAT (also very gross).
SYNCHRONICITY IS REEEEEAALL I was literally just thinking about weird animals and how humans are the weirdest of them all (neked mole rats of the primate world, decided to throw stuff and run instead of climbing, suffered brain swelling and conquered the world, now living in perpetual anxiety because we built 1000000 things capable of cutting the smallest stuff just right and causing big kaboom) And now the poopie show has shown up no less than 57 seconds after I conceived of that with a video describing the EXACT SAME PREMISE of weird animals
Yep humans cannot live outside all day without wearing the skins of animals or woven dead plant fibers and we don't really want to much anyways since the weather always changing, much prefer the cool shaded house cave that is expunged of all life except us, our captive pets and our hoards of possessions of which we are never satisfied.
4:01 As an American, I appreciate you using a unit of measurement that actually makes sense instead of the metric system (though Bald Eagles might have been a more ideal choice of units).
It might not be super obscure, but olms are such goobers. All the cute, goofy parts of an axolotl melded into a blind, snakeish shape. I love them, such long, much snek
I'm kinda surprised this isn't showed, but an animal I know off that I wish I didn't is the cookiecutter shark, sometimes called cigar shark. They're a small kind of shark that get about half a meter long, are slim, have a blunt snout and 2 big eyes. At first glance they might not look so bad, cute maybe even, but they're hellish beasts. They have a big mouth with suction-like lips, and are stealthy predators. What they do is when a possible victim get near enough, they open their mouth very widely and suction themselves on the flesh with their lips. There, they use their bandsaw-like set of lower teeth to just take out a chunk of meat from the victim. The mark they leave behind is what's truly disturbing, they literally just leave holes in the fish they attack. Straight up holes, like if I were to use an ice cream scoop on a live fish to take out a part of it's flesh. It's really disturbing. They attack large pray as well as swallow small fishes, so sometimes fishermen can fish up a tuna as example with multiple fist-large holes in their bodies because of this hell spawn. Yes, multiple, they hunt in schools. Looking up pictures of their bites is crazy, it doesn't feel real that an actual animal would hunt like this. Oh, and btw, it's rare due to the places they live in, but if given the chance, they will and did attack humans.
I'm particularly fond of deep sea animals. They have to adapt to truly insane conditions and have therefore evolved strategies to deal with this inhospitable section of the ocean. A lot of them, including many anglerfish species, the gulper and pelican eels, and the black swallower are adapted consume animals sometimes twice their size to take advantage of a rare feeding opportunities. The many organisms that display bioluminescense is also magical. Going in a deep sea submersible is definitely a bucket list thing for me. Great video! Just one small nitpick: when writing scientific names, the species epithet is not capitalized. For example, the tripod fish (a bizarre abyssal plane inhabitant) would be Bathypterois grallator. It should be italicized too, but I don't think there's a way to do that in UA-cam comments.
1. Just found out about her channel and it’s so comforting/chilling to watch poopies videos idk😭I just love it. 2.I think Aardwolf’s are so cute. They may be not very popular or well known animals, unfortunately. But I think it’s still one of the most interesting species :D
Oh my DUDE my favorite creature (i don't say animal, because it's more complicated) is the praya dubia. It's a colony organism, a siphonophore, and looks like an elegant ten-meter sock at full growth. It is RAD AS HELL.
So my favourite obscure animal has to be the Bolas Spider. They are little guys that disguise themselves as bird poop in the morning and play cowboy at night. They hang on a thread and produce a second one with a thick glob of spider glue on the end, mix it with a bit of "i need to mate" moth smell and swing it around to spread that smell. Then when a moth gets close enough, it throws the bolas at it, catching the moth and then reeling it in to have a nice meal, before retreating back to wherever it came from to pretend to be bird shit again. Goals.
Not that obscure of an animal, but I really like potoos. They are very common in my hometown and they're part of our folklore. According to our regional legends, there were two siblings who lived in the forest. The sister, who was the oldest, was very mean to his brother, which led him to trap her on top of a tree by making her climb it and then cutting all the branches so she couldn't come down. He then abandoned her and she kept calling him "turay! turay!" ("brother" in quechua) until she transformed into a bird and flew away still calling for his brother.
siphonophores, everything about them. The fact that they are a colony of animals that form the animal itself. The fact that each part has its own function (and its a different animal) and they all come from the same egg. Its such a bizarre concept.
One of my favorite Obscure animals is the Olm, a Paedomorphic Amphibian that looks similar to an Axolotl, but it only lives in DEEP cakes, have gotten rid of their eyes since they have no natural sunlight down there, and are some of the few creatures on the planet who would probably be fine if the sun Disappeared. (They can also supposedly live for over 100 years, so that's neat)
Alright, you asked for it, it's weird bird time! Kiwis, the smallest of the ratite birds (big flightless birds spread across the planet, like emus, ostriches, cassowaries, rheas, etc.) are actually the closest living relative to what is believed to be the largest bird to ever live: the elephant bird of Madagascar. You read that right, not New Zealand, the home of the kiwi bird, but Madagascar. Ratites are believed to have descended from flying ancestors that were genetically inclined to develop flightlessness, and so did after spreading across the planet. Oddly enough, the kiwi bird and the elephant bird share a common ancestor more recently than the similarly large ratite bird that once lived on the same islands, the moa, did with the kiwi bird. So, strangely, although there was once another large ratite bird of New Zealand, that bird was fairly distant from the kiwi within the ratites. Kiwi birds are naturally shy, reclusive, and nocturnal, meaning they are rarely actually seen in New Zealand. They also have the largest egg to body ratio of any bird, with the egg taking up about, laying a single egg that is from 15 to 22 percent of its body weight. There's also another lesser known flightless bird of New Zealand called the kakapo, which is my absolute favorite endangered bird (sorry for picking favorites). This bird is actually the largest living parrot species, and sports a vibrant green and a derpy, downward facing bill. Long-story short: I love the flightless birds of New Zealand!
My favourite obscure animal is an individual: a kakapo (a very rare New Zealand ground parrot) who, while still in the egg, was sat on too hard by his mother, crushing the shell. But kakapos are super rare, so the Department of Conservation actually managed to patch up the egg with tape, and he hatched healthy, and is now a fully grown adult. The local iwi gave him the name Ruapuke ^_^
@@tabbitee.. Ask your deportees... That have lived in Australia their whole lives, but kicked out as soon as they commit a crime, whether they feel like Mexicans or Canadians. I can pretty much guarantee which one they'll say.
I'm rather fond of the Arabian sand boa (looks like a sock puppet) and the long-nosed whip snake (pretends to be a vine but looks stoned because he has weird horizontal pupils like a sheep).
The truly evil ones weren't the harpy eagles. It was the two researchers who decided to ruin a perfectly peaceful and flourishing environment, simply because they felt bored.
Iron Snails. They live around hydrothermal vents and cover themselves in actual iron sulfides, so they look like little volcanoes. Depending on the composition of the metals they absorb they can come in a few different colors and sometimes they get oxidized and rusty looking. Cool stuff.
Pangolins are pretty fun. They got the armadillo's memo about armor for fighting bugs, but they went with the scale-mail route rather than plate mail, and honestly? Slay queen.
My favorite obscure animal is the Fossa! Fossa's are Madagascar's apex predator, and they look like weasels but if they dressed up as cats. They are incredible climbers and have semiretractable claws! Their ankles can actually rotate 180 degrees. They get about 2 feet long (or 6 feet if you include the tail!) The tail is a major factor of how they keep their balance in the trees! Love these guys! Also this video was so fun to watch! I love learning about creatures!
My favorite obscure animal is the Mantid fly. Its essentially what happens if you were to take a hornet or wasp and then. Replace the upper half with a praying mantis, its sick asf looking
One of my faves is the Sacculina barnacles! The females replace the gonads of crabs, and then the crab tends the parasitic barnacle's egg sac as if it were its own eggs, cleaning and aerating it. This happens even if the crab is male and wouldn't normally have those behaviors.
I like silky anteaters and pangolins. Ones a miniature arboreal anteater and has the dopiest looking •U• face and the other is a polite armored gentleman that walks upright to protect its nails. The babies also ride on mom’s tail and it’s SO cute.
My favorite obscure animals are quite possibly the legless lizards. they are basically snakes but without the the jaw that opens for days and subtly different scales.
The Kiwi is rather strange, as it's a small nocturnal flightless bird with feathers that resemble fur and even whiskers, and has a call that would scare the crap out of you if heard in the middle of the night. Not to mention they lay eggs that are around 1/3rd to half the size of their own body, which is crazy.
I think my fave obscure animal would be the Cassowary. Its just a dinosaur. Has talons about 5 inches in length, can kick humans n animals down super easily to stomp em, and does a territorial growl which is super low frequency but rumbles your speakers.
Praya Dubia. It's like if an eldritch god, a jellyfish, and a centipede made babies. Also you likely have never heard of it at all unless you're interested in marine life or have played Another Crab's Treasure.
Leaf sheep are cool and all, but they’re not my favorite photosynthesizing sea slug. Eastern emerald elysia, which are one of my favorite animals in general, happen to look like actual leaves. There’s nothing in particular that makes them more interesting than leaf sheep, but I love them anyway.
I love sand cats , because they don't drink water (since they also live in the desert), but only the blood of their prey! U can't comvince me that this isn't the cat equivalent for a vampire! Обичам клиповете ти
I love your channel so much. I wish to etch this video into my brain forever. God tier video. That mom joke being the cherry on top of the cake. Never stop making videos I beg you
I was today years old when i found out that its possible for some living creatures to photosynthesize, not just plants. Respect the leaf sheep 🫡 And i also learned that its been documented and experimented that fish breeding across different species is possible 7:29 holy HELL is anyone gonna talk about how outta pocket that comment is 😭 1:51 also KLONOA GANG STAND UP BABYYYYYY
I am aware that you want people to comment to boost the algorythm but since you look like a certified fellow geek I will recommend the Ironclad Beatle and the iron-shelled snail Oddly enough, my favourite pokemon are electrical, not iron type
My favorite obscure animal is a member of the genus Pholidota. The Pangolin, also known as Scaly Anteaters, are mammals found in Asia and Africa. Pangolins have large scales on their body that are made of keratin, the same material found in fingernails and toenails. they are nocturnal, and as their alternate name suggests, they feed primarily on insects and termites with a long, thin tongue. they also dig burrows, which they stay in alone, as Pangolins aren't very social creatures. they only leave their burrows to find food and mate, where they will meet up once a year, and females will have litters of up to 3 offspring, where they'll be raised for about 2 years. they have similarities to the Armadillo, but are completely unrelated. it was also used as inspiration for Monster Hunter: World's own Bazelgeuse, a large flying wyvern with a similar body appearance to the Pangolin, who fly the area and carpet bomb the ground near prey and would-be predators, who also happens to be my favorite monster.
My favorite is my actual spirit animal; the Lyre Bird. It mimics sounds that it hears to near perfection. I've heard one make a chainsaw noise, it was incredible. Anyway, they're really cool and they do impressions of stuff basically and I've always really resonated with that.
You missed a shark. It's called "the goblin shark" and another shark that I forgot the name of, but it has a lower jaw that curls under its head, and it looks disturbing. I think it's called " The buzz saw shark"
I love Tardigrades, microscopic creatures who walk like underwater bears with four pairs of legs, eat moss, and can endure incredibly harsh conditions. They're not extremophiles, they prefer their tasty moss and plant matter, but they've been observed living through radiation, extreme temperatures, intense dehydration, toxic environments, powerful impacts, the pressure of the Mariana Trench, and even the vacuum of space.
Georgia: oh boy, I can’t wait to be able to grow fresh produce!
The obscure and nefarious weevil:
hi i just wanted to say that i love this and that i love weevils thank you for mentioning these silly guys
Dw he will end up playing a childrens card game, be good in like 1 duel vs a Dino guy then be slapped around by side characters and lose more and more credibility as a duelist. Shouldn't have thrown the exodia pieces into the ocean, bastard...
@@aidenlikesbugs We Evil Together
Goofy ahh bug.
As an european, i often get confused with the name of Georgia. It really bugs me.
Fun fact: some indigenous legends say that the harpy eagle also eats children, which I wouldn't doubt considering they certainly have the size for it and at a distance a child might look similar to a small monkey.
humans are basically just monkeys with without fur, so I can imagine those are less legends and more straight up warnings
I dont see why that eagle would even discern if it is human or monkey if it is food shaped and food sized
@@danielwordsworth1843One of the types of food has a tendency to get revengy.
@@clintonbehrends4659 Though humans are big and can fight back
Well, when we're adult
@@tylerian4648 I would say both, but one has better means to do so
but not sure if an animal has a capacity to connect the dots that it was a revenge and not just some random attack (not sure how many attacks harpy eagle usually gets tho)
Fun fact about Harpy Eagles, they are completely fearless around humans, it’s to the point people can walk up wild ones and the birds are completely unbothered, they barely acknowledge your existence. Unfortunately that makes them pretty easy to hunt, it’s pretty easy to kill a big target that doesn’t immediately recognizes danger and probably thinks you’re pretty chill too. Large wild predatory animals that aren’t bothered by people and can sometimes be pretty sweet with us but terrorize other animals just fascinates me like the Harpy Eagle, Shoebill Stork, or Orcas.
orchas are chill until they develop psychosis in captivity.
I'd be scared shitless if i ever came across them.
@@tuep Yeah in captivity they have attacked people, but they're being forced to stay in a relatively small area where they can't roam and forced to do tricks for the entertainment of their captures, it's understandable that they would lash out but in the wild there has never been an Orca killing a person in recorded history, so ironically I'd rather come face to face with a wild Orca than a "tamed" Orca.
@@richardmorgan3665 There is no _recorded_ attack by orca on humans. This can have two different explanations.
@@richardmorgan3665 Orcas are like elephants: they don't often see us as a threat or a food source, so generally they have no reason to attack us. They're also smart enough to be curious about us, and when we return that curiosity, the interactions can be pretty cool. But just because of their size, if they get angry or scared and we're in the smack zone, we tend to die. They're also both intelligent enough to suffer from mental and emotional trauma and to connect that trauma to humans where relevant. Elephants are one of the animals most known for developing problems in zoos - problems that, in a human, would indicate being mentally unwell, even if people tend to not want to attach the term "mental health" to animal care. They'll do things like pacing, rocking, making the same repetitive motion over and over for hours. I don't think most zoos currently have the means to keep large, intelligent animals ethically, which is unfortunate because zoos really can do a lot of good when they're run well.
@@svennoren9047”…dead men tell no tales”, Said the whales
Pretty sure you're one of em
no, u.
@@thepoopieshow Epicest comeback
Pretty sure we are them
I want to be that weevil...
But poopy is adorable so she gets a pass
No, all the passes
I like coconut crabs.
They start as shy hermit crabs but end up as the arthropod equivalent of a gigachad
Great example of:
"Big eats small" being way more accurate then "predator or prey species"
In their early stages they hide from birds. And later the birds hide from them, which is hard because they climb.
they haven’t always been this grand
they were bland little crabs once
They're also likely responsible for Amelia Earhart's body never having been found.
She help fill hole left by sameolly
@@fgregerfeaxcwfeffecewe in the story business call this character development.
00:36 "One of the very few multicellular organisms that can photosynthesize"
Excuse me, have you heard about PLANTS?
I really should've said animals
You've piqued my interest. Elaborate on these "PLANTS" you speak of.
Meanwhile humans have managed to make other animal cells capable of photosynthesis recently.
So that's a thing.
@@Razgriz_Ace18 I wonder if they were moving chloroplasts because cryptosporidium called. It would like to remind everyone it used to be a chloroplast before it became a parasite of almost every animal species on Earth.
@Razgriz_Ace18 ...you can't just drop a vague science discovery and then LEAVE 😅 Photosynthesizing animal cells? Where, when and how? Link, please!
imagine a ze frank and poopie show collab, oh my, that would be amazing
hell yeah
I second this so hard, holy shit
OMG
That would be awesome!!
"It has ear holes. No really, they're holes."
-ze frank in owl video (possibly paraphrased)
"So no (literal) head?"
The sturddlefish is the only time i think calling a creature a abomination is justified... All other strange creatures were evolved to look strange by the place they live... This thing is a literal freak accident of Nature
As soon as she said "abomination" I knew what was coming.
I know, right??? 😅 however, evolution doesn't care about looks or our feelings, hahaha
Think my favourite obscure animal is the Margay. A small cat that hunts monkeys *in the trees* by mimicking the cries of a baby monkey then ambushing any adults that come to investigate. It can also turn it's paws 180 degrees so it's just as good going down or across a tree as it is going up. It also looks like an Ocelot that's forever stuck as a kitten so it's adorable to look at.
You deserve to have this comment pinned for choosing the best animal, brother 🩷🩷🩷
I didn't know those cute little creatures were such a menace.
Not surprised though, it's a cat.
Cursed...
A literal criptid from a monkey pov
Thank you for not mentioning the blobfish Madam Poopie
true!!!! anyone who says they're ugly - how about we put you in their habitat (at the bottom of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific ocean, 2000-4000 feet deep) and see how you look?
tbf the blobfish looks very normal in its habitat, lower pressure on the surface just makes it look like a melted mistake
@@r0sarie we already tried that but we called it the "Titan Submersible". There were no survivors.
Blobfish look pretty normal when they aren't removed from their extreme habitat that they evolved specifically to live in
@@adamk.7177 Well the Blobfish being pulled up to our habitat don't survive either
you're my favorite science communicator
As someone who's had their lunch stolen in the office fridge for too many times, I can respect the aardwolf.
I'm almost tempted to do the same to deter stolen fud.
Humans dont have their smell or taste so evolve to discern to whom that "marker" belongs
but I guess they will know it isnt theirs
modern problems sometimes require animalistic solutions
I will never be able to comprehend what would drive someone to steal someone else's lunch. Like, what goes through their head? Do they feel shame? Do they feel smug?
There are sandwich bags you can get that make it look like the food inside has mold on it.
Personally, I've found that drawing a single large eye on my lunch box lid and another on the front was enough to cut lunch thefts down to almost none.
Extra seasoning? Wouldn't stop me.
@@gyrrakavianfun fact the ancient Greeks used to do the same thing to deter crime, the evil eye was a common symbol used to deter theft and crime and it was literally just a giant picture of an eye, which modern Studies have shown is psychologically alarming at some level and makes criminals slightly nervous to commit crimes around it, add a busy workplace that anyone could walk in at any time and Bam instant modern-day evil eye protection
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POOPIE!!!! 😱😱
I did not need to know the details of your relationship with my mother 😢
My favorite obscure animal fact is a hyrax (a small elephant relative that looks like an ewok and prairie dog had a baby) secretes solid urine that humans use as a perfume ingredient! I think a lot of people know about ambergris and maybe even castoreum being used as perfume ingredients, maybe even know about civit paste. These are what perfumers call the "animal" scents in perfuming.
Ewww, never buying perfume again lmao
We already eat bugs, chemicals and other people's rectum. There is no problem wearing perfume.
I was aware of the other animal products in perfumery, but not from hyraxes. Deer musk is an especially ancient one. What is the " "ingredient" (it feels very weird to call it that) that hyraxes produce called?
4:24 fun fact harpy eagles are end game birds for falconers, because if you mess up once with these birds they will never forgive you. and they will hold a grudge, so you just have to release them and try again
Harpy eagle 🤝 the common crow
Holding an eternal grudge
People falcon with those things!?
Mine is a bit of a stretch as its technically a Bacteria, but I remember writing a couple thousand word essay on it about 6-7 years ago. Thermococcus peptonophilus is a type of Archaea that hangs around hydrothermal vents on the "chimney walls". It harvests energy from the hydrogen gas or methane that the vent spits out and that's how it survives. They can survive up to 120 degrees celsius but generally like chilling at around 100. Pretty metal if you ask me, and weird. Imagine huffing earth farts to survive.
Honestly, with the way things are going these days I wish all I had to do was huff earth farts to survive.
Archaea are so badass
Extremophiles are very cool and have a very cool classification name
i will NOT be taking this weevil slander, my lawyers will soon be in contact.
The maned wolf is a member of the canine family, along with wolves, jackals, coyotes, and domestic dogs. This South American mammal looks like a mixture between a fox and a wolf, but in reality, it is not closely related to either. In fact, they aren’t closely related to any other canines. Their closest living relatives are bush dogs. They Stand at 35 inches tall and their ears are also quite long, typically measure 7 in. tall. Thick fur covers the entire creature, and the hair on the back of its neck is denser and more distinct. This is where the name maned wolf comes from. They got lanky legs, dance on top of prey hiding underground, and their pee smells like weed. Zoos have had full on police investigations come in because of the smell. :)
They are also
1 - have a symbiotic relationship with a plant species popularly known as "lobeira", where maned wolves eat the plant's fruit and help disperse it's seeds
2 - are ridiculously people shy, to the point pups raised by humans since an early age still don't want to interact with us once released into large enclosures or back into the wild
3 - might be actually technically an invasive species. They come from a biome called "Atlantic woodland", which is all but extinguished today. But have migrated into the Cerrado and seem to live all nice and dandy there, despite the substantial differences between the two biomes
The sound they make is also called a "Roar-bark" and can be heard for some distance similar to wolf howls.
Though it would be significantly more concerning if heard and unknown. They sound like a beast, and it's very cool.
The Weevil is my favorite bug, the shoes, the eyes and big nose have captivated me
I love their ball-jointed heads, makes them seem like a cool action figure or robot.
I love weevils, they are true bugs 😊 👍🏼
I used to be disgusted by them thanks to stories of sailors eating hardtack infested with the critters but i like the more derpy looking ones now
@@ZhovtoBlakytniyNo they’re not. True bugs are completely different.
Mine are sea angels. Mainly because they're serenely eerie. They're semi translucent, with a red glowing 'halo' inside their upper bodies/head, with 'angel wings' for fins and 'rabbit ears' on their head.
Until of course they try to eat something, and their 'head' bursts open into an entire maw of tentacles. They're a swimming slug, and they're really small. Like 5cm max. Probably for the best of course, last thing we need is Lovecraft's version of a mermaid actually being big enough to cause us distress.
biblically accurate sea slug
3:25 he's just a little guy
EVIL.
Nathan Yaffe would approve of this little guy
@@thepoopieshow NEVER
Long ahh nose
Evil baby
You described an anomaly in fish and said "it's not a fluke" completely deadpan, bravo
Wait what?!🤣 7:27
maternal instincts go crazy
It's very sweet of you to make my mom feel desirable. With age, a husband that's been dead for decades, and a double mastectomy, she's had a lot of difficulty getting laid. Thank you for keeping her company, it means the world to all of us.
Poopie has an instinctive need to breastfeed frogs. I will raise her banner and hold the last line to defend her if necessary.
I love chinese water deer, those 'fangs' may be tusks but they still look simultaneously adorable and metal as hell
...also if we're talking about paleobiology, i have so many i could yap about for hours
Dearest Commenters, Allow me to convince you of the very best of the bizarre;
Splash-splishin' in from the Ordovician, at an approximate 25cm (or 9ish inches) long, The best fish to ever be the worst fish. may I present- *THE SACABAMBASPIS.*
With an armored head, and a face you either hate or love depending on which of the recreations you look at. (the one from the Helsinki museum is my favorite). The Sacabambaspis was a species of jawless fish- we all wish- was still around.
Straight from the shallow waters off the continental margins of Gondwana, it is the best known of the Arandaspids that existed around 470ish million years ago! due to its lack of jaws, its mouth was lined with small boney plates, which were presumably movable so that it could use "Suction Feeding"! A type of feeding used by modern seahorses- which are known to have one of the highest hunting success rates of any creature, at a staggering 90%!
Sacabambaspis however, swam more like a tadpole than a fish. because they decided it would be a great idea to never evolve fins! No pelvic fins, no pectoral fins, no dorsal fins, just barely a tail fin! and that's it! They did however, seem to have a sensory system that allowed them to detect the directions and distance of even the slightest movements in the water around them!
though perhaps not the strangest of the ancient ocean life- (I'm looking at you Anomalocaris, Opabinia, Hallucigenia, and assorted Cambrian creatures- with love of course.) I firmly believe the Sacabambaspis to be the Panicle of Prehistoric Pizzaz.
Though my hints have been subtle, and my machinations near certainly undetected, you may have been able to guess that the Sacabambaspis is my favorite fish! But admittedly, all the Arandaspids are pretty great, so you cant really go wrong there. (I know if you look up Arandaspid/Arandaspida, what will come up is probably going the be something called the "Arandaspis". which IS a member of the Arandaspid species, but is not the only guy. I can most assuredly assure you.)
in conclusion? Sacabambaspis best fish, no contest. and even if there was a contest? The Sacabambaspis just has better theme music. (ex: Sacabambaspis (English Cover) from Will Stetson. or the Original Japanese version by yakamochi_na) though of course, there are other songs, too.
And with that, my friends, enemies, and assorted rats who wandered in from the garbage out back-
I bid you the fondest adieu, and good night!
One of my biology professors did his thesis on Nematomorpha (Gordian worms). They're parasitic worms who mostly infest predatory insects and freaked me out so hard in the lecture. He showed us a video of an infected Mantis put into a water container and the worm literally crawled out of its ass because they live without a host as adults. Usually they alter their host's behavior to have them jump into bodies of water. So, behavior altering, ass crawling worm with relatives (Nematoda) who infect humans (he showed graphic medical pictures for those). Honorable mention to Priapulida for looking like THAT (also very gross).
I have seen those emerging in real life and it’s so disturbing. Like how does that much worm fit inside the bug???
The monkey one is the equivalent of aliens dropping dragons off on earth just to see ehat would happen
6:43 photoshop morphing the poor stock image man in order to deepfake a series of emotions onto his face gave me a powerful giggle
SYNCHRONICITY IS REEEEEAALL I was literally just thinking about weird animals and how humans are the weirdest of them all (neked mole rats of the primate world, decided to throw stuff and run instead of climbing, suffered brain swelling and conquered the world, now living in perpetual anxiety because we built 1000000 things capable of cutting the smallest stuff just right and causing big kaboom)
And now the poopie show has shown up no less than 57 seconds after I conceived of that with a video describing the EXACT SAME PREMISE of weird animals
Yep humans cannot live outside all day without wearing the skins of animals or woven dead plant fibers and we don't really want to much anyways since the weather always changing, much prefer the cool shaded house cave that is expunged of all life except us, our captive pets and our hoards of possessions of which we are never satisfied.
@@cattysplat Also capable of changing instincts and the act itself is socially accepted. Also smile with teeth.
4:01 As an American, I appreciate you using a unit of measurement that actually makes sense instead of the metric system (though Bald Eagles might have been a more ideal choice of units).
7:29 this sounds like an obscure fetish about to be made into a Skumbagovich bad art history video, and I'm all for it
as a pedantic biologist, i must point out that most plants are multicellular organisms that can photosynthesize
"Let's start off with cute, and end off with [cute]"
0:27 is literally me
It might not be super obscure, but olms are such goobers. All the cute, goofy parts of an axolotl melded into a blind, snakeish shape. I love them, such long, much snek
What's funny is that I only know what you're talking abt from Amphibia (Disney show)
how do you just say "and that makes me wanna breastfeed him or something" like that's just the most normal sentence in the world
I'm kinda surprised this isn't showed, but an animal I know off that I wish I didn't is the cookiecutter shark, sometimes called cigar shark.
They're a small kind of shark that get about half a meter long, are slim, have a blunt snout and 2 big eyes. At first glance they might not look so bad, cute maybe even, but they're hellish beasts.
They have a big mouth with suction-like lips, and are stealthy predators. What they do is when a possible victim get near enough, they open their mouth very widely and suction themselves on the flesh with their lips. There, they use their bandsaw-like set of lower teeth to just take out a chunk of meat from the victim.
The mark they leave behind is what's truly disturbing, they literally just leave holes in the fish they attack. Straight up holes, like if I were to use an ice cream scoop on a live fish to take out a part of it's flesh. It's really disturbing. They attack large pray as well as swallow small fishes, so sometimes fishermen can fish up a tuna as example with multiple fist-large holes in their bodies because of this hell spawn. Yes, multiple, they hunt in schools. Looking up pictures of their bites is crazy, it doesn't feel real that an actual animal would hunt like this.
Oh, and btw, it's rare due to the places they live in, but if given the chance, they will and did attack humans.
now this is what I wanted. free animal facts. I will google images of those fish now.
6:46 The government doesn't want you to know that it is how McAffee died in reality
I'm particularly fond of deep sea animals. They have to adapt to truly insane conditions and have therefore evolved strategies to deal with this inhospitable section of the ocean. A lot of them, including many anglerfish species, the gulper and pelican eels, and the black swallower are adapted consume animals sometimes twice their size to take advantage of a rare feeding opportunities. The many organisms that display bioluminescense is also magical. Going in a deep sea submersible is definitely a bucket list thing for me.
Great video! Just one small nitpick: when writing scientific names, the species epithet is not capitalized. For example, the tripod fish (a bizarre abyssal plane inhabitant) would be Bathypterois grallator. It should be italicized too, but I don't think there's a way to do that in UA-cam comments.
1. Just found out about her channel and it’s so comforting/chilling to watch poopies videos idk😭I just love it.
2.I think Aardwolf’s are so cute. They may be not very popular or well known animals, unfortunately. But I think it’s still one of the most interesting species :D
my favorite non obscure living guy thing is the....
Cannabis sativa
i just think they are neat
Oh my DUDE my favorite creature (i don't say animal, because it's more complicated) is the praya dubia. It's a colony organism, a siphonophore, and looks like an elegant ten-meter sock at full growth. It is RAD AS HELL.
"Peltering pest" starts talking at 0:00 ❤
Sometimes I forget quite how strange the Bilby is
So my favourite obscure animal has to be the Bolas Spider. They are little guys that disguise themselves as bird poop in the morning and play cowboy at night.
They hang on a thread and produce a second one with a thick glob of spider glue on the end, mix it with a bit of "i need to mate" moth smell and swing it around to spread that smell.
Then when a moth gets close enough, it throws the bolas at it, catching the moth and then reeling it in to have a nice meal, before retreating back to wherever it came from to pretend to be bird shit again.
Goals.
Not that obscure of an animal, but I really like potoos. They are very common in my hometown and they're part of our folklore.
According to our regional legends, there were two siblings who lived in the forest. The sister, who was the oldest, was very mean to his brother, which led him to trap her on top of a tree by making her climb it and then cutting all the branches so she couldn't come down. He then abandoned her and she kept calling him "turay! turay!" ("brother" in quechua) until she transformed into a bird and flew away still calling for his brother.
siphonophores, everything about them. The fact that they are a colony of animals that form the animal itself. The fact that each part has its own function (and its a different animal) and they all come from the same egg. Its such a bizarre concept.
One of my favorite Obscure animals is the Olm, a Paedomorphic Amphibian that looks similar to an Axolotl, but it only lives in DEEP cakes, have gotten rid of their eyes since they have no natural sunlight down there, and are some of the few creatures on the planet who would probably be fine if the sun Disappeared. (They can also supposedly live for over 100 years, so that's neat)
i want to live in a deep cake too...
@@tuep NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...Minor Spelling Mistake...time to be atomized...😔
Lung Leeches: They're like evil flesh tissue moving around and breeding inside your lungs.
The spider comment, as an Australian we don’t burn the house down, it’s the spiders home now, we just live there
Alright, you asked for it, it's weird bird time! Kiwis, the smallest of the ratite birds (big flightless birds spread across the planet, like emus, ostriches, cassowaries, rheas, etc.) are actually the closest living relative to what is believed to be the largest bird to ever live: the elephant bird of Madagascar. You read that right, not New Zealand, the home of the kiwi bird, but Madagascar. Ratites are believed to have descended from flying ancestors that were genetically inclined to develop flightlessness, and so did after spreading across the planet. Oddly enough, the kiwi bird and the elephant bird share a common ancestor more recently than the similarly large ratite bird that once lived on the same islands, the moa, did with the kiwi bird. So, strangely, although there was once another large ratite bird of New Zealand, that bird was fairly distant from the kiwi within the ratites. Kiwi birds are naturally shy, reclusive, and nocturnal, meaning they are rarely actually seen in New Zealand. They also have the largest egg to body ratio of any bird, with the egg taking up about, laying a single egg that is from 15 to 22 percent of its body weight.
There's also another lesser known flightless bird of New Zealand called the kakapo, which is my absolute favorite endangered bird (sorry for picking favorites). This bird is actually the largest living parrot species, and sports a vibrant green and a derpy, downward facing bill.
Long-story short: I love the flightless birds of New Zealand!
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My favourite obscure animal is an individual: a kakapo (a very rare New Zealand ground parrot) who, while still in the egg, was sat on too hard by his mother, crushing the shell. But kakapos are super rare, so the Department of Conservation actually managed to patch up the egg with tape, and he hatched healthy, and is now a fully grown adult. The local iwi gave him the name Ruapuke ^_^
New Zealand. That's Australia's Mexico, isn't it?
@@A_picture_of_Mohammed Aotearoa/NZ is Australia's much cooler and more attractive cousin
@@A_picture_of_Mohammed Nah mate, we're Australia's Canada :p
@@tabbitee.. Ask your deportees... That have lived in Australia their whole lives, but kicked out as soon as they commit a crime, whether they feel like Mexicans or Canadians. I can pretty much guarantee which one they'll say.
Finally you got your plaque! That's awesome, keep up the good work
I'm rather fond of the Arabian sand boa (looks like a sock puppet) and the long-nosed whip snake (pretends to be a vine but looks stoned because he has weird horizontal pupils like a sheep).
if you like them then you might also like the elephant trunk snake. cutest little baby faces I've ever seen.
The truly evil ones weren't the harpy eagles. It was the two researchers who decided to ruin a perfectly peaceful and flourishing environment, simply because they felt bored.
Iron Snails. They live around hydrothermal vents and cover themselves in actual iron sulfides, so they look like little volcanoes. Depending on the composition of the metals they absorb they can come in a few different colors and sometimes they get oxidized and rusty looking. Cool stuff.
Pangolins are pretty fun. They got the armadillo's memo about armor for fighting bugs, but they went with the scale-mail route rather than plate mail, and honestly? Slay queen.
How have i never heard of the Leaf Slug, it is literally a real life Pokemon, it cannot get closer to a Pokemon than it already is.
My favorite obscure animal is the Fossa! Fossa's are Madagascar's apex predator, and they look like weasels but if they dressed up as cats. They are incredible climbers and have semiretractable claws! Their ankles can actually rotate 180 degrees. They get about 2 feet long (or 6 feet if you include the tail!) The tail is a major factor of how they keep their balance in the trees! Love these guys!
Also this video was so fun to watch! I love learning about creatures!
I think my favorite obscure animals might be the lungfish and the siren. Is the Okapi an obscure animal? They're kinda dope too
Everyday where Poopie uploads is a good day!🎉✨
Fun fact: the harpy eagle is naturally from Brazil. So when we say "come to brazil" we are just luring y'all to become harpy's dinner
My favorite obscure animal is the Mantid fly. Its essentially what happens if you were to take a hornet or wasp and then. Replace the upper half with a praying mantis, its sick asf looking
The fact I knew about 80% of these animals shocked me
One of my faves is the Sacculina barnacles! The females replace the gonads of crabs, and then the crab tends the parasitic barnacle's egg sac as if it were its own eggs, cleaning and aerating it. This happens even if the crab is male and wouldn't normally have those behaviors.
4:00 "It is the largest eagle..."
-"Lol." Said Steller's sea eagle. "Lmao even."
5:50 it looks like a small bird piloting a large body like a mech
You honestly desrve all your subscribers and more. I absolutely love your sense of humour
thumbnail alone just made me subscribed lol i love your art style, it's something new for me.
I like silky anteaters and pangolins. Ones a miniature arboreal anteater and has the dopiest looking •U• face and the other is a polite armored gentleman that walks upright to protect its nails. The babies also ride on mom’s tail and it’s SO cute.
The best vid you've put out, you and your team just keep getting better
My favorite obscure animals are quite possibly the legless lizards. they are basically snakes but without the the jaw that opens for days and subtly different scales.
My favourite obscure animals are cats I don't think they get enough recognition. I have 3. Thank you.
I don't know it in great detail, but apparently some syllid worms have butts that break off and spawn remotely on their own.
Idk how obscure genets are, but I find them really cute in a weird way. It looks like an uncanny valley cat with really long tail.
The Kiwi is rather strange, as it's a small nocturnal flightless bird with feathers that resemble fur and even whiskers, and has a call that would scare the crap out of you if heard in the middle of the night. Not to mention they lay eggs that are around 1/3rd to half the size of their own body, which is crazy.
All 4 horsemen of doom on that thumbnail
im a big fan of giraffes having the same amount of bones in the neck as humans. A wonderful example of evolution
I think my fave obscure animal would be the Cassowary. Its just a dinosaur. Has talons about 5 inches in length, can kick humans n animals down super easily to stomp em, and does a territorial growl which is super low frequency but rumbles your speakers.
Praya Dubia.
It's like if an eldritch god, a jellyfish, and a centipede made babies. Also you likely have never heard of it at all unless you're interested in marine life or have played Another Crab's Treasure.
Leaf sheep are cool and all, but they’re not my favorite photosynthesizing sea slug. Eastern emerald elysia, which are one of my favorite animals in general, happen to look like actual leaves. There’s nothing in particular that makes them more interesting than leaf sheep, but I love them anyway.
I love sand cats , because they don't drink water (since they also live in the desert), but only the blood of their prey! U can't comvince me that this isn't the cat equivalent for a vampire! Обичам клиповете ти
"it was not a fluke"
Yeah it wasn't a Sturgeon either.
I love your channel so much. I wish to etch this video into my brain forever. God tier video. That mom joke being the cherry on top of the cake. Never stop making videos I beg you
I was today years old when i found out that its possible for some living creatures to photosynthesize, not just plants.
Respect the leaf sheep 🫡
And i also learned that its been documented and experimented that fish breeding across different species is possible
7:29 holy HELL is anyone gonna talk about how outta pocket that comment is 😭
1:51 also KLONOA GANG STAND UP BABYYYYYY
I am aware that you want people to comment to boost the algorythm but since you look like a certified fellow geek I will recommend the Ironclad Beatle and the iron-shelled snail
Oddly enough, my favourite pokemon are electrical, not iron type
One of your better contributions. Keep em coming :)🎉
My favorite obscure animal is a member of the genus Pholidota. The Pangolin, also known as Scaly Anteaters, are mammals found in Asia and Africa. Pangolins have large scales on their body that are made of keratin, the same material found in fingernails and toenails. they are nocturnal, and as their alternate name suggests, they feed primarily on insects and termites with a long, thin tongue. they also dig burrows, which they stay in alone, as Pangolins aren't very social creatures. they only leave their burrows to find food and mate, where they will meet up once a year, and females will have litters of up to 3 offspring, where they'll be raised for about 2 years. they have similarities to the Armadillo, but are completely unrelated. it was also used as inspiration for Monster Hunter: World's own Bazelgeuse, a large flying wyvern with a similar body appearance to the Pangolin, who fly the area and carpet bomb the ground near prey and would-be predators, who also happens to be my favorite monster.
My favorite is my actual spirit animal; the Lyre Bird. It mimics sounds that it hears to near perfection. I've heard one make a chainsaw noise, it was incredible.
Anyway, they're really cool and they do impressions of stuff basically and I've always really resonated with that.
You missed a shark. It's called "the goblin shark" and another shark that I forgot the name of, but it has a lower jaw that curls under its head, and it looks disturbing. I think it's called " The buzz saw shark"
My favourite obscure animal is the Bony-eared Ass Fish. (To point and laugh at.)
The dongfish has a horngus attached by a scrungle to a dillsack
My favorite animal is, and always will be, The Pygmy Shrew. The animated kind, whose offspring hunt their mothers for sport.
thanks for the horrors poopie! how do you keep yourself mentally well while doing research for your videos?
I love Tardigrades, microscopic creatures who walk like underwater bears with four pairs of legs, eat moss, and can endure incredibly harsh conditions. They're not extremophiles, they prefer their tasty moss and plant matter, but they've been observed living through radiation, extreme temperatures, intense dehydration, toxic environments, powerful impacts, the pressure of the Mariana Trench, and even the vacuum of space.
my favorite obscure creature is the gnome ive been hunting for 30 years... im so close to finding the gnome cave... little tricksters.
Idk what you're on about, weevils sre absolutely adorable