Animals With Weird Names

It’s a Welsh dragon, after all!

Surprisingly not a translation error.

…and some awkward 19th century stories, too.

Choose wisely.

Note to self: only research with the Latin name.

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The umbrella conger eel doesn’t look like its name, but it’s well covered. From scrutiny, anyway.

It might sound like an annoying sidekick, but Irritator has the backstory of a super-villain. Back when South America and …

My mind cracked apart like the continents when I read camels were from North America. But the drooping, slightly disappointed …

Welcome to Opposite World, where rabbits are in one place rather than everywhere, on volcanoes instead of plains, and said …

It seems a bit unfair calling this a “rat-tail” fish when it clearly just has a thin, tapering tail. But …

Just to get this out of the way: yes, it’s actually called that, and yes, it lives near Cape “Horn” …

Another potential supervillain either squandering its power or slowly building its empire. But unlike the others, it has its own …

My last two posts have had a bit too much sexy talk, so here’s the goblin shark to put an …

There’s an animal called the “ultimate shrew”. But what kind of “ultimate”?

The oarfish was definitely named after the wrong kind of “oar”.

No, the devil fish’s eyes aren’t comically popping out, they’re just fins.