It is becoming increasingly difficult for a rare being to surprise us. We have seen bodies B films full of samples, we played video games with … Beings of creative anatomy and we have read fantastic literature that are populated with Engends, so our surprise margin is closely limited. Of course, when we leave the fiction field, we will continue to hallucinate with the strange ‘bugs’. Let’s admit it, we are passionate about the ‘rare’. Because? They show little and although they are very real, they let us believe in the mystery and in which at the moment are still residents of our planet who look like a medieval bestiary … or a birthday party of ‘Alien’. Caspar Henderson, the British writer and journalist, presents us in his last work ‘The Book of Almost Imaginary Beings’ (Attic of the Books) Some animals that are so strange from a dream or a child drawing. “It is our knowledge and understanding that are too limited,” says Henderson.
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Flat worm
Better to have two penises? In love and war everything is worth
They are … plans. That is, their physical cavity fog intestines, so that they do not prevent “participating in what the most surprising sexual practices can be on the planet,” Henderson glides. The pipelines, a kind of these flat worms, “give themselves to a spectacular screens with penises, with the help of two phallus that they have in the chest, in an attempt to penetrate and fertilize,” the author describes.
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Portery devil
Don’t eat me, I get my second head
It has terrible, “but it would not hurt a fly,” says Henderson. This lizard fits in with the palm of the hand, lives in Australia and is full of thorns, allowing him to defend himself against predators, as well as a ‘false head’ that he takes from his legs when he is threatened to ‘offer’ to the enemy. In the case of losses, it does not suffer great damage because the weather is growing. Moreover, this devil can also swell to make it difficult to swallow so that they all know them to survive.
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Medusa Comb of Ctenophore
The jellyfish that we can confuse with a belt
When we see a translucent binding on the sea that shines and flashes of colors in the sunlight bump … do we take it? Well, it is not handy to put it at the waist, because it is a comb or ctenophore jellyfish, an animal that has hardly changed into five hundred million years. His way of reflecting and breaking the light and his shape has given him the name ‘Venus Belt’. “It is one of the most beautiful and strange creatures that exist.”
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Axolotl
The ‘lizard’ half -human alien
It is perhaps the best known of the ‘Raritos’ gallery. The Axolot has an almost “extraterrestrial appearance,” says the writer, with his eyes without eyelids, arms and delicate legs, external gills … and then the “permanent smile and pink skin that offer a disturbing human appearance” (in fact has a ‘cousin’ in Slovenia called ‘human fish’). Moreover, you can regenerate your limbs if you lose them, such as Tritones. For some researchers, in peculiarities, such as this, scientific progress in the light of the future can live. Another reason to study these strange creatures, according to Henderson. If they do not die before, because this amphibian is ‘in critical danger’.
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Yeti Crab
The Hairy ‘Arms’ Monster
They called him ‘Yeti’ because he has two huge ‘arms’ with hairy appearance (they are actually brushing hairs, such as those of the moths). The rest of his anatomy is that of a shellfish, but it looks like a hybrid between a monkey and a normal crab. It was discovered in 2005, about 1500 kilometers from Easter Island and in the depths of the ocean.
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Saltadora Spider
That bug with white and very athletic mustaches
He lives in North America and is a ruthless hunter. P. Mystacus has two pairs of frontal eyes, “so she can investigate large parts of the world around them,” the writer explains. And use their visual acuity – some ‘family members’ have this more developed sentence than a cat – to devour bees and other spiders, their favorite dishes. If they don’t kill them before fear, because they have a kind of white mustaches and black strands that, in addition to their collection, that remind us of science fiction samples. And their way of jumping … can be equivalent to 50 times the length of your body and precisely countries. More skills? Yes. They know how to ‘dance’ in a very curious way to intimidate their opponents or to ‘seduce’ their partners.
