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29 March 2024

Strange and unusual creatures

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The mysterious sea creature that washed ashore on Folly Beach, S.C. is actually a sturgeon. (Facebook)

Photo of Vanderbilt University showing an adult star-nosed mole. The mole literally inhales its food, taking less than a quarter of a second to identify a piece of food, grab it, eat it, and then look for more. (AP)

Phylis Canion holds the head of what she is calling a Chupacabra at her home in Cuero, Texas, Aug. 31, 2007. She found the strange looking animal dead outside her ranch and thinks it is responsible for killing many of her chickens. (AP)

This picture taken through a special filter in a dark room shows, a cat, left, possessing a red fluorescent protein that makes the animal glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet rays, appearing next to a normal cloned cat, right, at Gyeongsang National University in Jinju, south of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007. South Korean scientists have cloned cats that glow red when exposed to ultraviolet rays, an achievement that could help develop cures for human genetic diseases, the Science and Technology Ministry said. (AP)

A young girl views an exhibition of a sea spider during a press viewing of The Science Of Aliens at the Science Museum in west London, Thursday, Oct, 13, 2005. The exhibition made up of over 500 exhibits, explores humanity's emotional attachment to the search for alien life. The exhibition opens for public viewing on Saturday, Oct, 15, 2005. (AP)

Overseer of small mammals at Bristol Zoo Gardens Caroline Brown with the young aye aye named "Raz", (Daubentonia madagascariensis) in Bristol Zoo in Bristol, England, Wednesday Jan. 9, 2007. The aye aye is only the second of his species to be born in Britain. The rare species of lemur, hunted to near-extinction and seen as a bad omen in its native Madagascar, has been born at the Zoo. (AP)

A 35-cm-long (14 inches) 1.3-kg (3.9 pounds) Giant isopod picked up from 800-meter (2625 feet) deep water in the East coast of the United States is displayed at the New Enoshima Aquarium in Fujisawa, southwest of Tokyo, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007. (AP)

This frame image from video, shows what is claimed by them to be a bigfoot or sasquatch creature in an undisclosed area of a northern Georgia forest in June 2008. (AP)