We live in a very diverse world. If we talk numbers, scientists put the total number of species on Earth at 8.7 million and stated it would take us another 1,000 years to catalog them all. Of course, some of the creatures in the animal kingdom have such weird features, they might as well not be of Earth.

Bright Side delved through some of the rarer beings in the natural world and collected the coolest of them for you to look at. One can’t help but wonder about what Mother Nature was thinking when she made these strange but fantastic creatures.

1. The proboscis monkey’s nose could rival an elephant’s.

“I met a 14-year-old lab with vitiligo.”

“My boyfriend said Belle’s different colored eyes creeped him out when we adopted her, but I think they are beautiful!”

“The rare beauty”

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Please note: This article was updated in May 2022 to correct source material and factual inaccuracies.