Top 15 Weirdest Animals in the World

Dugong

What a cute vacuum cleaner!

Class: Mammals
Order: Sea cows
Family: Dugongidae
Habitat: Indian Ocean, Western Pacific

Almost everyone has heard of manatees, but what on Earth is a dugong? This animal, with its strange giant trunk, is a close relative of the manatee. The big difference: manatees live in freshwater and dugongs almost exclusively live in saltwater. The dugong uses its horseshoe-shaped, trunk-like mouth to search the sea floor for seaweed.

Dugong - Photo: Kristina Vackova/Shutterstock

• Table of Contents:
• 0. Introduction
• 1. Longhorn Cowfish
• 2. Glass Frog
• 3. Sawfish
• 4. Fried Egg Jellyfish
• 5. Streaked Tenrec
• 6. Red-Lipped Batfish
• 7. Saiga
• 8. Spook Fish
• 9. Clearwing Moth
• 10. Musk Deer
• 11. Dugong
• 12. Blue Ocean Slug
• 13. Giant Isopod
• 14. Leafy Seadragon
• 15. Leaf-Tailed Gecko