The 14 Most Incredible Animals We Encountered in 2014
Featured 01/05/2015
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1. Officially the world's largest insect, the Giant Dobsonfly was found in China and now resides in your nightmares.
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2. The leaf-tailed gecko was discovered in Madagascar this year after scientists looked extremely close.
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3. It might look like an alien creature, but earlier this year a fisherman came across this basket starfish off the coast of Singapore.
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4. An extremely rare and incredibly adorable set of twin elephants were born at the Pongola Game Reserve in Pongola, South Africa.
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5. This 18-inch mantis shrimp was caught by a Florida fisherman--talk about a jumbo shrimp cocktail, amirite?
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6. This is probably the only camel who wasn't camera shy, spitting, or biting when some tourists wanted to take a selfie.
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7. A rare megamouth shark was reeled in by a group of fisherman in Japan.
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8. Proof of how little we know about the deep blue sea, a scarce 10 foot, 200 pound giant squid was picked up by a fisherman off the coast of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico.
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9. As if to one-up the giant squid, this colossal squid, the second one ever found, was discovered defrosting in Antarctic waters. It certainly lived up to its name weighing in at over 770 pounds.
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10. Normally solitary creatures, this unusually non-stealthy oarfish was spotted swimming by some kayakers in Baja, Mexico.
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11. This adorable new species of round-eared shrews are now believed to be the smallest breed of sengi. Incredibly, they're actually more closely related to elephants than they are rodents.
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12. This gorgeous blind owl appeared to have stars in his eyes when we met him for the first time.
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13. Take, for example, the South American Goliath birdeater spider, which is roughly the same size as a small puppy.
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14. This terrifying, adorable, and 100% real animal appeared to be part-deer, part-vampire. It was sighted in Afghanistan earlier this year.
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Officially the world's largest insect, the Giant Dobsonfly was found in China and now resides in your nightmares.
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