Lists of creatures around the world that are simply beautiful (or, at least, very interesting).

Cool-Looking Animals

Animals

Ever wish you could turn invisible? These creatures almost can. There are plenty of see through animals in the world, from&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/see-through-ocean-animals/robert-desalvo">transparent undersea creatures</a> with visible guts to these land-based critters with nearly invisible skin. Some are found in extreme places like deep caves and exotic rainforests, while others, like the amazing glasswinged butterfly, you might find in your own backyard. These transparent animal pictures give you a glimpse into this rare, beautiful facet of the natural world. It's pretty cool that you can see their inner organs as well.From slugs and snails to frogs and butterflies, the sheer number of these sheer animals might surprise you. These nearly see through animals aren't as well known as <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/animals-that-can-change-color/katherine-ripley">animals that can change color</a>, like the famous chameleon, and that's a shame – as the see through animal photos below reveal, it's a pretty magical trait. Scroll through the images, and prepare to be amazed.

10 Real Transparent Animals That Let You Take a Peek at Their Insides

Animal/Plant

10 Real Transparent Animals You Can Literally See Inside

Kellen Perry

Interesting

Camouflage is pretty common in the animal kingdom, but animals that can change their colors are much less common. This list is full of animals that have the spectacular evolutionary gift of being able to change their colors. Some of them can change to blend into a new background in less than a second.The reasons animals change their colors do vary, as do the methods they use to change colors, and scientists still do not completely understand the ways in which some animals change. But the mystery just makes them all the more awesome to look at.

Animals That Can Change Their Color (And How They Do It)

Animals That Can Change Their Color (And How They Do It!)

Katherine Ripley

Hair

Most of us go through a lot to get perfect hair -&nbsp;from expensive dyes and products to hours spent styling in front&nbsp;of the mirror. Yet, these <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/dogs-hairstyles/ashley-reign?utm_expid=16418821-310.smDnXTH_QT6V93qtvQFoXw.0&amp;utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ranker.com%2Fapp%2Fsearch.htm%3Fq%3Dhair%2Bcut" target="_blank">animals with amazing hair</a> don't&nbsp;have to put in a single stitch of effort. There's no straightening needed to get those glorious Cher-like locks and no curling&nbsp;for perfect beachy-waves. There's no need to lather&nbsp;scalps in frizz-fighting products, and no burning&nbsp;with bleach and dye. These animals truly have <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/cats-with-funny-hair/ashley-reign?utm_expid=16418821-310.smDnXTH_QT6V93qtvQFoXw.0&amp;utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ranker.com%2Fapp%2Fsearch.htm%3Fq%3Dhair%2Bstyles" target="_blank">some great hair</a>, and it's a gift from the heavens above. In most cases, these animals literally woke up like this.Crazy animal hair comes naturally for these&nbsp;beautiful creatures -&nbsp;from the Selkirk Rex's adorable ringlets to the endangered Mary River Turtle who fashions a pretty punk rock wig. No matter what the texture, length, or style, these hairy animals really know how to rock the&nbsp;perfect do. So, go ahead and&nbsp;express yourselves - you are all wonderful.

Just 12 Animals With Insanely Amazing Hair

12 Animals With the Most Amazing Hair You've Ever Seen

Mariel Loveland

Nature can be both weird and beautiful at the same time, and nothing exemplifies this like the leucistic&nbsp;creatures of the world. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucism" target="_blank">Leucism</a> is a genetic disorder that is incredibly similar to albinism, where an animal is born with a lack of certain pigments. Creatures with leucism often look like half albino animals, but there are some big differences. Unlike albino animals, leucistic creatures often keep some of their coloration.&nbsp;

Thus, animals that are half albino are actually not albino at all! Leucistic animals still retain some of their pigments, which results in beautiful piebald patterns. Even though they aren&#39;t technically albino, the colloquial name &quot;half albino&quot; rolls off the tongue a bit smoother than &quot;leucistic.&quot; <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/albino-animal-pictures/ranker-science" target="_blank">Pictures of albino animals</a> may be common on the internet, but who knows how many of them are actually leucistic?&nbsp;Check out&nbsp;these truly unique creatures and vote up the photos of the most beautiful half albino animals!&nbsp;

18 Mind-Blowing Photos Of Half Albino (AKA Leucistic) Animals

Photos Of Half Albino Animals

Eric Luis

Stories, pics, trivia, and interesting tidbits about all creatures, great and small.

Enter the Animal Kingdom

While humans generally regard walking on water as some kind of miracle only performed by deities, certain animals and bugs do it all the time. Some animals that can walk on water do it to avoid predators, others to hunt their prey, and some even employ the tactic as part of their mating rituals. One mammal even appears to have learned a gravity-defying trick in captivity, only to teach it to her friends in the wild. Some use speed and surface tension, while others are simply too small to sink.Which animals walk on water as if they think they are Jesus or a magician? Find out below!

Animals You Didn't Know Can Walk on Water

Juliet Bennett Rylah

Lists about weird and fascinating corporeal forms in the animal kingdom.

Animal Anatomy

Animals of all shapes and sizes have different kinds of strengths. Deciding which animals are the strongest really depends on how you define strength. Do you define strength as the sheer power of an animal, how much they can carry pound-for-pound, or the strength of their bite? This list includes land mammals, marine animals, and insects, all of which are ridiculously strong, in one way or another.Some animals can carry large amounts of weight, up to several times their own body mass, while others have really strong and ferocious bites. Do you think you know what the strongest animal is? You might be shocked to find out that some of the smallest animals are actually the strongest pound-for-pound.The top two strongest living things are beetles (yes—beetles!) and the strongest mammal is a gorilla. Which other animals are the strongest on Earth? Take a look at this list, and consider which creatures you would not want to go head to head with.

21 Animals Who Are So Strong It's Kind Of Scary

The Strongest Animals in the World

General

Strongest Animals in the World | List of Most Powerful Creatures on Earth

Ranker Science

All birds, great and small, from the freaking enormous ostrich to the itty bitty hummingbird and every feathered flapper in between.

Avian Aficionados

Birds are amazing animals. They've adapted to live in environments throughout the world. They're an extremely diverse group. Most fly, but many don't. Some are herbivores and some are carnivores. Some are shy and some are fearless. This list is full of the coolest birds on earth, from the fierce to the beautiful to the bizarre.All of these cool bird species have a special talent or distinguishing feature that makes them unique — whether that's reaching speeds of 200 miles per hour or migrating more than 40,000 miles per year. Explore the world of interesting birds, and vote for the bird you think is the greatest.

Sri Lanka Frogmouth

The Most Interesting Birds on Earth

The Most Interesting Birds on Earth You've Never Seen Before

Lists about the beautiful, fascinating, sometimes terrifying features and living things that naturally developed on this spinning rock we all call home.

Our Amazing Planet Earth

There is a long history of man looking up into the sky and seeing something so strange that the only option was to declare it extraterrestrial. Who knows how many stories these weather anomalies spawned? Green glowing lights dancing on the horizon, iridescent glowing night clouds, sparkling moon-rainbows and odd, colorful halos in the mist. Water and light and wind can playfully mix together all kinds of beautiful, magical creations.Which of these rare atmospheric anomalies have you seen?

The Most Rare Atmospheric Phenomena on Earth

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Darling, it's better down where it's wetter.

Under the Sea

Creepy, terrifying, and nausea-inducing pics and vids that will skeeve you out and give you nightmares.

Warning: Look Away

The Sea

Do you occasionally enjoy the peace and quiet of a nice day out on the waves? Love the occasional cute sea creature that pops up to say hello when you&rsquo;re chilling at the beach? Well, then you may have come to the wrong place! Here we&rsquo;ve collected a list of some of the most disturbing scary sea creatures that roam beneath the waves. We&rsquo;ve scoured the depths of the deepest waters to find a list of creepy creatures and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/scariest-fish-list/ranker-science" target="_blank">scary fish</a> that prove that the deep sea and ocean depths are the most horrifying places on Earth.

You may think twice about taking up Scuba-diving after getting a load of some of these deep sea fish, who range from weird to terrifying. While some of these creatures,&nbsp;such as the Dumbo octopus, could possibly be considered cute in the right light, others such as the goblin shark are just plain terrifying. Among this collection, you&rsquo;ll find both deep sea dwellers that have been known to mankind for quite some time, as well as others that were only discovered as recently as the past decade and remain relatively mysterious.&nbsp;

So if you&rsquo;re ready to get a load of what lurks beneath the surface, take a look at some of the most bizarre deep sea creatures the oceans have to offer. We&rsquo;ve got a wide range of creatures from the harmless to the lethal, all of which sport the wildly bizarre looks that can only be found way beneath the waves. Whether they&rsquo;re bottom-dwellers or deep sea swimmers, many of these freaky fish have looks that only a mother fish could love.

20 Deep Sea Creatures That'll Scare You Away From The Ocean

Deep Sea Fish | Scary Fish and Sea Creatures

Ashley Reign

Lists about some of the most beautiful, dangerous, and otherwordly creatures that thrive in our very own oceans.

Our Neighbors in the Sea

Jellyfish: What may seem like pests to the beach bums of the world are actually very interesting and fun subjects. Sometimes colorful and all the time slimy, jellyfish have a lot more going on than you might realize. They are fascinating and complex ocean creatures and this list of the most interesting jellyfish facts is here to help you realize this.&nbsp;For an animal that pre-dates the dinosaurs, it is surprising how little most of us know about them. Take a look at this list of the most interesting and random facts about jellyfish and get to know these beauties a little better. For example: they lack a heart, brain, and lungs. So how do they get by? Take a look at this list and see how these smart sea creatures survive and thrive with their strange abilities.Make sure you vote up the cool jellyfish facts you think are the most interesting and informative. Also don't forget that peeing on a jellyfish sting will do nothing but make for an awkward moment. Now go conquer the world with all this information about jellyfish!

21 Reasons Why Jellyfish Are the Most Fascinating Creatures

Fun Facts You Should Know About Jellyfish

Jellyfish Facts, Interesting Trivia About Jellyfish

Corey Barger

Cute

Animal facts! Cute gifs and photos! Get 'em while they're hot! Are you subscribed to&nbsp;<a href="http://reddit.com/r/awwducational">/r/awwducational</a>? This subreddit presents adorable and interesting animal facts along with gifs and pictures that will both educate you and provide your daily dose of cuteness. What more could you want from the Internet?Not just your average <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/historic-photos-of-cats/ashley-reign?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">cute cat pictures</a>, awwducational both teaches you something and is a sources for the cutest animal pics and gifs around. Did you know that seahorses hold tails during courtship? Or that crows return home to visit aging relatives. Make your mom's day with a phone call to tell her all the adorable new facts you'll learn about the earth's creatures.One marine mammal can even zip up its tongue into a straw! Vote up the most interesting facts from the awwducational subreddit below, all accompanied by the adorable animals themselves. Can't get enough animal cuteness? Take a look at these <a href="/list/cute-animals-yawning/amylindorff">adorably sleepy animals</a> and some of the most <a href="/list/cute-animal-parents-babies/bunny-brinkman">precious animal parenting moments</a> ever.

The Best of Awwducational: Fun Facts About Adorable Animals

The Best of the Awwducational Subreddit, Ranked

Carly Kiel

Nature is a terrifying place, and that means animals have adapted clever ways to survive. One particularly fascinating method is mimicry.&nbsp;The goal is for the creature to trick other animals into thinking they are something else, a remarkable example of evolution in action. Some harmless animals have evolved to look like their more dangerous counterparts, while others downplay their predatory advantages by mimicking less violent species. Examples of&nbsp;mimicry can be found throughout the animal kingdom, from up in the sky to deep down in the ocean.These animal imposters are the best of the best, employing all different kinds of mimicry. Batesian&nbsp;mimicry is when an animal copies a toxic species to avoid being eaten. Acoustic mimicry is when an animal copies the vocalizations of another to their own advantage. Animals that look like other animals are abundant in nature, and their less-than-unique appearances have&nbsp;allowed them to thrive in the harshest environments.The mimics in the photos below are found on the left side, while the animal they are mimicking is on the right. Enjoy these photos of clever animal con artists.

Animal Imposters: 15 Creatures That Fake It To Make It

What is the fastest animal on Earth? To answer that question, you have to be more specific. Are you talking about running on the ground, diving in the air in free fall, flapping through the air, or swimming through the water? Also, you might want to judge speed based on a creature's body size and how many body lengths it can achieve per second. This list includes the fastest birds, land mammals, fish, and even insects.&nbsp;You probably learned that the fastest animal on land is the cheetah, which is arguably correct... at least over short distances. But when you compare its top speed to that of a diving peregrine falcon or a black marlin in water, the cheetah's reputation for being the &quot;fastest animal on Earth&quot; seems a bit undeserved.Take a look at our list of speedy critters that can all fly, swim or run circles around you. Some of them may surprise you.

The Fastest Animals in the World

The Fastest Animals In The World

Otters. They were your favorite exhibit at the zoo, but maybe you grew up and forgot just how playful and adorable these little guys and gals really are. A member of the weasel family Mustedlidae, they are related to badgers, martens, ferrets, and even wolverines. Wolverines! Otters are just the cutest, and as it turns out, are quite interesting little animals as well. What are the most fascinating weasel facts?There are 13 species of otter, all of which are either aquatic or at least semi-aquatic. Some of them play basketball, some of them have numerous tricks to keep themselves from floating away, and all of them are cute beyond belief.Some of these adorable otter facts came from <a href="http://animals.io9.com/you-otter-know-its-sea-otter-awareness-week-1637795782/+katharinetrendacosta">here</a>, while others are courtesy of <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Awwducational">r/Awwducational</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Otters">r/Otters</a>. Get your fix of otter facts below and celebrate their craftiness, cuteness, and playful attitudes by voting on the list of otter facts below.

20 Facts That Will Make You Fall in Love with Otters

Otter Facts | List of Interesting Things About Otters

Amy Boal

Our planet has built some pretty cool stuff over the past 4+ billion years. The mechanisms it employs to push up and tear down itself are endlessly fascinating. Layers of sediment are laid by eruption&nbsp;or erosion only to be shoved, smashed, pressed, folded, uplifted and eroded again. Minerals react and interact with each other chemically and metamorphically, creating unreal shapes and amazing colors and textures.&nbsp; Most of the time a mountain looks like other mountains or a rock looks like any other rock, but sometimes factors conspire to create the most fantastical things... things you can&#39;t believe occurred on their own. Things that seem to flaunt physics or nature itself. This is a list of the most amazing geologic formations on earth. Vote up the ones you think are the most spectacular, the most insane... the most unreal.

The World's Most Unreal Geological Formations

Think you know your favorite animals? Study up on fun facts and fascinating trivia to drop at your next cocktail party.

Up Close with Awesome Animals

The great apes—gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans—are humans' closest living relatives. They share about 98 percent of our DNA. Great apes are remarkable creatures that show profound intelligence and capacity for emotion and this list is full of cool ape facts that you've probably never heard before. Get to know your ape pals!These fun facts about apes will make you realize that these animals are profoundly similar to us. Vote up the ape facts you think are the most interesting, and get inspired to help save the great apes.

Fun Facts You Should Know About Apes

Ape Trivia | 20 Interesting Facts About Apes

Weird Nature lists at Ranker - the ultimate source for lists and rankings in all categories

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A look at some of the oldest known, recorded, and/or existing things on earth.

Old School Cool

Ancient Flora / Fauna

This list of the oldest living things on Earth, including the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/longest-living-animals/robert-desalvo" target="_blank">oldest animals</a>, species, and organisms, will definitely make you feel young. You could probably nitpick some of these life forms within a million years here, a million years there... but the fact remains that these animals have been around a loooong time. What are the oldest living organisms on earth? And more importantly how have they stuck around this long?

These ancient organisms have been around for millions, or ever billions of years and have achieved apparent perfection in their environment. Millennia have passed, and they keep on keeping on. Sure, a tail might shorten, an extra tentacle might grow, or they might develop a more streamlined coat of armor... but, like that guy you know with the haircut he&#39;s had since high school, these animals have asked themselves the question: Why change it if it&#39;s working?

These are the oldest living things on the planet, and they just might still be here long after we are nothing more than fossils found buried in a pile of styrofoam take-out boxes.

The 10 Oldest Living Things On Earth

The Oldest Animal on Earth (and the Oldest Living Things)

Smarts

List of the world's smartest animals, in order of their animal intelligence ranking. When putting this list of the smartest animals in the world together, I had to give myself criteria to follow. A complex brain is not a factor so much as the ability to use creative thinking. Sure, these are my own standards, and some might complain that this list is decidedly anthropomorphic– seeing as how I'm judging these smart animals by obvious human criteria. For example, why should creative thinking mean one animal is smarter than another animal that can remember the location of 2,200 individual nuts it buried over 2 years? That's just how I decided to do it. To me, creative thinking makes an animal smart, not memorization. I couldn't limit myself to a list of just the top 10 smartest animals because that would have eliminated some incredibly smart and creative creatures. What is the smartest animal in the world? Check out this list of nerdy mammals to find out which of our pets will ultimately rule the planet when humans go extinct!

Out Of All The Animals On Earth, These 15 Are The Smartest

Smartest Animals: List of Most Intelligent Animal Ranking

Lists about phobias: the things we're scared of and why we are afraid of them.

What Are You So Afraid Of?

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We're all more scared of one thing than another. Maybe it's the idea of being mauled by a Grizzly or having spiders crawl in your ear while you're sleeping. Maybe it's just the IDEA that a snake might be nearby. Whatever it is, vote on the animal that scares you the most, and of course, feel free to add any of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/frightening-facts-about-the-world-s-scariest-animals/aaron-edwards?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">scariest animals in the world</a> that might be missing from this list.Any list of the scariest animals in the world will likely include sharks, spiders, and snakes. But what terrifies one person might not scare another at all. It's interesting to look at why certain animals strike fear, and others don't. Is it because many of the animals listed here are potentially deadly? Some spiders' bites can be horrible, but <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/10-amazing-things-about-spiders/analise.dubner" target="_blank">spiders can also be pretty amazing.</a> Sure, but that doesn't explain why cockroaches freak people out (if you don't believe me, just check the list, and see the votes for yourself). It's highly unlikely that you'll be done in by a killer cockroach – so what gives? Well, they're creepy, they're crawly and (depending on where you live) they *can* fly. That qualifies as scary.And yes, some of the scariest animals listed here, we'll never ever encounter in real life. Oh, we might see a great white shark in an aquarium or on TV during <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/full-list-of-shark-week-episodes/reference" target="_blank">Shark Week</a>, but really? The odds of us actually coming face to face with a great white are pretty slim. Still, we've all seen Jaws, so that sucker shoots to the top of the list. And bats: Yes, some believe they are scary, but there are a lot of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/top-10-untrue-myths-about-animals/analise.dubner" target="_blank">myths surrounding these and other animals</a> that, if you knew more, might make them a bit less terrifying.Which animals scare you the most? Are they insects? Reptiles? Mammals (and yes, this includes man)? Time to vote!

Animals You Should Hope to Never See in the Wild

The Scariest Animals in the World

Ranker Community

Lists of bizarre real headlines and 100% true actual news stories from the physical world in which we all really live that are stranger, scarier, and more depressing than any fiction writer could ever dream.

Unbelievable News

Take the kids out for a fun day at the zoo! See wild animals in tiny recreations of their natural habitats! Watch as they suffer stress, indignity, unnatural climates, and public mating! ...Ooh, a monkey!!!

Locked Up: Animals Behind Bars

Zoos

Nothing good is going to come of a situation that involves being in a cage with a wild&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/cute-dangerous-animals/ranker-science" target="_blank">animal</a> at the zoo. And yet, people keep putting themselves in situations where &mdash;&nbsp;despite warnings from the zoo and others around them &mdash;&nbsp;they come face-to-face with lions, tigers, and bears. Some of these people were taken out by&nbsp;a caged animal; others were merely assaulted by a captive wild beast.&nbsp;

These are the tales of the outlandish&nbsp;and sometimes most inebriated people to ever jump the fence at a zoo.&nbsp;