>The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent

>>5100386
moonfish
platypus
narwhal
all the animals from the deep sea

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Saiga.
Also, giraffes when first encountered by the Chinese, were thought to be qilin/kirin.

>>5100407
>platypus
Supposedly the first taxidermy that was sent was assumed to be a hoax, like they thought somebody glued a duck beak to a beaver.

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>>5100411
lotta snoot on that thing

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>>5100386
Rusingoryx
Hadrosaur like hartebeest from Pleistocene Africa

>>5100411
>The legendary image of the qilin became associated with the image of the giraffe in the Ming dynasty.[11][12] The identification of the qilin with giraffes began after Zheng He's 15th-century voyage to East Africa (landing, among other places, Ma-lin (麻林): Malindi (in modern-day Kenya).). While The Ming Dynasty according to Ma Huan, the interpreter who accompanied Zheng He, notes the products of Mogadishu and Barawa, modern-day Somalia (including ivory, ambergris, and camels), he specifically credits Malindi as the source of the qilin (giraffe). His account solidifies the geographic identification.[13] Zheng He's fleet brought back two giraffes to Nanjing. The official court chronicles record the arrival of the giraffe in 1414 (the 12th year of the Yongle Emperor's reign) and they were mistaken by the emperor for the mythical creature. Somalia (Mogadishu) also sent a giraffe, but later and with less fanfare. The records indicate that Mogadishu also sent a giraffe as tribute, but in a later voyage (1415-1417). This giraffe did not capture the court's imagination in the same way as the first one from Malindi, which had already been successfully identified with the mythical qilin. The identification of qilin with giraffes has had a lasting influence: even today, the same word is used for the mythical animal and the giraffe in both Korean and Japanese.[14]
Neat.

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>>5100386
*is attainably freaky in your path*

>>5100524
What exactly is hadrosaur-like about this?

>>5100529
It had a domed skull akin to lambeosaurine hadrosaurs (such as Parasaurolophus) that allowed it to amplify its calls. The domed part was hollow like resonating chamber.

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>>5100386

>>5100802
Fun fact, this causes so much strength loss that if you take those rings out she can't hold her head up.

>>5100637
Interesting

>>5100961
Worth it for the deep throats tho

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>>5100411
>Every other cool Pleistocene megafauna goes extinct aside from this retarded looking flappy nosed jew deer

Fuck this gay timeline

>>5100411
Doesn't kirin literally translate to giraffe in Japanese

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Malabar giant squirrel

>>5101413
Not quite but yes. Kirin is a mythological creature in East Asian lore. Giraffes were mistaken for them and the name stuck.

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>>5100386
Anything Cambrian Era is easy mode

>>5101737
nightmare fuel

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>>5101739
what the hell are these? some sort of seaworm?

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>>5100411
>>5101078
This.

>>5101738
I ain't gonna swim in that water

>>5100386
If we're looking from an animal perspective instead of a human perspective, probably humans.
>bipedal
>not only that but they stand up freakishly tall unlike other bipeds that at least have the decency to stay low to the ground
>tailless
>hairless
>disgusting massive heads with giant white eyes and flat faces
>long arms with freakishly long, slender fingers
>bullshit smart
>can somehow run for days on end without getting tired
>can mind control wolves to attack you
>can somehow make a pointy stick hit you from a distance by just swinging their arms
>pointy sticks in general are some fucking black magic bullshit

>>5100386(OP)

>>5105557
That is one lazy bump.

>>5101737
>Reverse_circumcision.webm

>>5105519
Kek, that's a pretty good one.

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There's definitely far stranger life on earth, maybe I'll post some if people are interested, but a well known animal that I feel like people forget is weird as fuck are seahorses. There is really nothing else quite like them out there.

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>>5100411
beautiful dr seuss creatures

>>5100478
That skull makes it look like it'd be some freak killer

>>5105934
IT'S PIKACHU

>>5100386
Imagine you wake up one day an see a giraffe walking around your neighborhood

Humans are the weirdest animal in existence. I don't think there's ever been a stranger mammal, and no I'm not talking about "haha they act funny". No. Humans look weird and like nothing else.

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>>5105975
Wrong. I feel more for this ape than for most of my co-workers.

>>5101737
Red is jewish and this is its nature

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>>5100407
>all the animals from the deep sea
This is where you get the really fascinating and alien stuff because it actually is from an alien environment.

>>5105975
>Humans look weird and like nothing else.
Wait until this guy learns about primates.

>>5105929
They're just black and white whales, there's nothing strange about them