Animals are 100% real but identical

These are bizarre-looking creatures that many believe are not real in life.

Unbelievably strange animals

The history of world science has many times witnessed the strange creatures discovered that caused a stir in public opinion, which is actually just an artificial product.

However, there are also many stories that no one believes and thinks like a joke is really a proof of a real animal in the world.

1. Platypus

In the case of the most famous misunderstanding in history, perhaps the platypus. For a long time, due to disturbance by rumors about the mummy Fish or monster Hydra (a dragon in legend with 7 heads), British scientists when they first saw animals speculum did not believe it was a real species.

Not until the eighteenth century , when biologist Captain John Hunter sent a platypus from Australia to American scientists, some researchers still claimed that it was a trick. They claim that the animal wrecker intentionally stuffed a duck into the skin of a beaver.

A surgeon named Robert Knox tried to expose this "trick" by conducting a dissection of the skin and trying to find stitches that proved to be a assembled skin.

Of course, he did not find a stitch.The platypus pores that appear more and more later prove the existence of this animal.

2. Birds of paradise king Saxony

Sometimes the outstanding beauty of an animal also makes them considered 'surreal '. That really happened with the paradise birds of Saxony.

This is an endemic bird species only found in the mountains of New Guinea . At the end of the nineteenth century, a museum director at Dreschen (England) saw the bird for the first time and portrayed it for a bird researcher named Richard Sharpe Bowdler.

Male Saxony paradise birds possess a very long and impressive 'eyebrows', which are used to attract females during mating season.

Sharpe soon confirmed that such a strange bird could not exist in nature . However, despite the doubts, he still searched for this strange bird and then himself confirmed the male hair on the head was real fur, not a fake feather.

The name " Heavenly Bird of Saxony" was also awarded to this bird to praise the echo of the male birds.

3. Okapi hybrid horse

In the early twentieth century, with European and American researchers specializing in wildlife in Central Africa, the Okapi was a mysterious creature .

There are continuous new reports from the end of the nineteenth century by journalist Henry Morton Stanley about a giraffe-like animal with stripes like zebra.

In 1900, Dr. PL Sclater, secretary of the London Zoological Society, displayed a pair of gun straps that he knew were soldiers of the skin of an unknown animal.

Sclater has researched and found that this skin is very similar to the skin of a giraffe hybrid with a zebra, but it is impossible to clarify that strange coincidence.

This specimen was later thought by many to be a scam , that the manipulator painted white on the giraffe's skin. It was not until many years later that the existence of the Okapi was confirmed when Harry Johnston sent a part of the animal's body to London.

4. Microorganisms

Imagine that you are a scientist in the seventeenth century and someone comes and tells you that microscopic creatures exist, clinging everywhere, even on your body or in your mouth. . and no one can see them with the naked eye. Surely you will never believe it, right?

Researcher Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.

In 1676, when Antonie van Leeuwenhoek reported on the extremely small creatures he had seen under a microscope, the majority of members of the Royal Society of Science laughed at him and thought it was a joke.

He silently collected the testimonies of those who had witnessed the microorganisms firsthand and sent them to the Royal Society of the British Society. Convinced by the evidence presented, the Association confirmed the existence of microorganisms.

5. Snake head lizard (Long-haired lizard)

In 1823, archaeologist Mary Anning discovered the first complete skeleton of a snake head lizard in Lyme Regis, Dorset. But at that time not everyone believed this fossil was a real creature.

The plesiosaur is a carnivorous reptile with a long, horror neck.The elasmosaur families have the longest neck, double their length and the tail combined.

The physiologist and paleontologist Georges Cuvier speculated based on the ratio of the whole body to the neck and concluded, this fossil is just a mixture from the skeletons of many different reptiles.

It took a long time for research with other archaeologists, and Cuvier finally gave evidence that the snake-headed lizard is a real creature in prehistoric times.