This is a warty angler. I don't know much about it, except it is REALLY creepy.

This is a pompeii worm. It lives by deep sea vents. The white things it has are hair-like things coated in bacteria.

The Nereis worm in this picture is another deep sea vent worm, and it is incandescent.

This is a teuthowenia squid, another deep sea creature. It is very puffy.

This is a deep sea lizard fish, and it, too, is very creepy/disturbing.

This is a dumbo octopus. Not a very flattering name, is it? I think it's because of the ears.

This buried bobtail squid is sleeping until night, when it will rise from the sand and go hunt for food.

There are four Nanday conures in this picture. They are in captivity, and are mostly likely babies from the same clutch.

This is a hagfish. They are sightless eels which bore into dead or dying sea creatures and eat the flesh. When threatened, they excrete slimy goo all over themselves. They then get in a knot (pun intended) to rub it off. Yes, they are pretty gross.

Manatees, like this one, are an endangered species. Since they are so slow, they usually cannot avoid propellers of motor boats and therefore have their backs sliced to pieces. Yes, it's a tough world out there for the manatee. Interestingly, they were once thought to be "mermaids."

This is a chimaera fish. I know very little about it; only that it's a strange deep sea fish.

This is a baby chimaera fish (possibly not a different species than the one on the left). Although it's strange, I have to admit it is cute in its own weird way.

This is a mandarin fish. They have very pretty and colorful stripes on them, as I hope you can see. They have large fins, too.

This is a sturgeon. It took the two men over an hour to catch it; it weights over 110 pounds. Some sturgeons get even larger than this!

Sorry if this pictures small - I put it here so you could compare it to the lungfish on the right. This is a Queensland lungfish. Lungfish can... breathe air! I wonder how you guessed...

Amazingly, this is also a Queensland lungfish. I have NO idea how it got so HUGE!!!

The ugly duck above is called a Muscovy Duck. The hideous pimples all over must be some unfortunate by-product of evolution.

This terrifying monster is a monkfish. They usually weigh about 70 pounds and can have gaping mouths up to a foot wide!

Okay, okay. You can relax; this isn't a real animal. I found this picture at http://www.worth1000.com/emailthis.asp?entry=153886 it's a combination of big-horned sheep, squirrel, and Hyacinth macaw.

The two bears above are spectacled bears; they are an endangered species, and the only bears to be found wild in South America.

The creature above is called a pangolin. Pangolins are pretty much African versions of armadillos, and they look pretty cool.

Look at this picture carefully, for right now you are looking at one of the very first images of a live giant squid! Yes, a LIVE giant squid. Some Japaneses researchers took over 550 images of a single giant squid that was attracted to their bait.

A baby pangolin! Apparently they are very cute when they are young; their tails are also very long.

This is Argentavis magnificens, a huge extinct bird from Argentina. It took off by running with its wings open (instead of flapping) because of its massive size. The rabbits must have been big back then, too.