#Crazy jungle predators skin#
The larvae grow inside the flesh and can cause skin lesions and infections. It’s best known for laying its eggs on a mosquito which then transfers the larvae to flesh including that of humans. It looks like a cute bumblebee, but the botfly is one of the creepiest bugs on the planet. Diet: Adults don’t eat, but larvae eat blood cells of its host.Scary feature: Can grow its larvae in human flesh.This is why indigenous tribes once used it in their blow-darts. This rainforest frog excretes a powerful toxin that can cause paralysis, sickness and even death. It’s a colorful, attractive frog but is one of the world’s most dangerous creatures. The poison dart frog is just the opposite. Some of the scary animals on this list just look that way but are perfectly harmless. Some species have horny projections on their head and red eyes, but these geckos are harmless to humans.
It has a tail and body that perfectly mimic a leaf in coloration, shape and other camouflage details such as leaf veins and insect damage. These are tiny little geckos that make good use of camouflage. Pretty much the only scary thing about this dude is his name. Diet: Insects such as moths, crickets and spiders.Size: Length: Up to 3.5 inches (including tail).That monster would be a gharial, a beast from India with a weird, bulbous growth on its snout. Size: Length: 11 to 20 feet (3.35 to 6 m) Weight: 351 to 551 pounds (159 to 250 kg)Ĭrocodiles are scary animals anyway, but what about one with a long, sword-like snout that looks like it could slice you up for dinner with its 100 razor-sharp teeth?.Range: Northern parts of the Indian subcontinent.Scary feature: Long, sword-like snout with 100 razor-sharp teeth.It looks creepy but is harmless and spends its time walking on the river bottom searching for prey to vacuum up into its mouth. If you only saw the long neck and head of this turtle sticking out of the water, you’d think it was a snake, but it’s really a snake-necked turtle. Diet: Insects, worms, tadpoles, frogs, small fish, and crustaceans.Range: Australia and southern New Guinea.Often hiding in caves and coral reef, the moray eel is an ambush hunter with scaleless skin that secretes a slippery substance that’s toxic in some species.īecause its venom can cause temporary blindness, the cobra always aims for the face of its predator. With more than 200 different species worldwide, this snake-like eel with sharp teeth is one of the underwater world’s top predators. Diet: Smaller fish, octopuses, squid, crabs, and cuttlefish.Size: Length: 6 to 15 inches (15 to 38 cm) Weight: 30 pounds (kg).
Scary feature: Snake-like body, sharp teeth, and toxic skin.It produces a faint glow that deceives its prey into thinking it to be light penetrating the water.Īnother cool thing about this shark is that its scientific name, Etmopterus benchleyi, is after the Jaws novelist, Peter Benchley. The sleek, black ninja lantern shark is among the ocean’s scary animals because it lurks through the deep, dark water sneaking up on its prey. Range: Pacific Coast of Central America.Scary feature: Stealthy hunting behavior.It coasts along with its 3-foot mouths open, taking in small fish and plankton that get trapped the shark’s gills that are lined with 3-inch grill rakers. Its massive jaw is crammed with blunt, powerful teeth in the back and large, pointy ones in the front that stick out even when the mouth is closed.Īn eel-like body and undulating swimming movements add to the scary factor. Teeth are what give the wolffish its ferocious appearance. Diet: Green crabs, sea urchins, whelks, starfish, sea clams and large hermit crabs.Size: Length: Up to 5 feet (1.5 m) Weight: 10 to 40 pounds (4.5 to 18.1 kg).Scary feature: Large teeth that stick out from the mouth.Hairy Frog aka Wolverine Frog, Horror Frog
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