Can be anything living. Must be a actual living creature, no mythology.
Tardigrade, aka Water Bear. Close second, axolotl.
Virtually indestructible, who doesn't love a Tardigrade.
The Tardigrade is the Nikola Tesla of microorganisms.
I had a tardigrade once when I was about 12, kept it in a well slide on my microscope, lost it after about 5 days. I was fascinated.
Octopus. Clever, bizarre, fascinating animal.
Crazy how smart they actually are. Friend of mine used to work with one that snuck out at night and would return by morning. It took them awhile for them to figure it out.
The Gila monster that exude a substance that controls diabetes and even more that guy who first licked the spit of a Gila monster and said" hey let's try and cure Hernando's illness with this."
Lol!
The raptor dinosaur group, not the hollywood ones but the real 3 foot tall ones. If not for becoming extinct I believe their descendants would hold the position we humans currently have.
West of Eden! Ever read it?
@Blindbird I will now.
Too many, as soon as I think of one, I immediately think of another. So I will have to settle for the one that I find the most fascinating, the peripatus.
Had to look that one up!
I wonder if the person that named it was playing on the word peripatetic somehow
Nice one! Here's something to project on the ceiling at your next birthday party (or someone else's)
Not currently living, but a shark called the Helicoprion. It was known for it's extremely weird lower jaw. Guess not every evolutionary branch ends well.
Black bears. Always have been fascinated by them. Came face to face with one years ago when vacationing in White Mountains of New Hampshire in a log cabin resort. Warned not to feed the bears after dinner at a Mexican restaurant after parking we saw a humongous bear on his hind legs standing tall trying to get into our dumpster enclosure. I signaled my husband at the time who was on the other side by jumping up and down without a sound but it scared the bear away.
Living in Alaska, I have ran into a few bears....but the worst was this adorable baby bear who came running at us as we were about to set up camp....a baby bear will get you killed quick...momma don't like humans who play with their babies...I imagine it looked like a monty python skit....haha...RUNAWAY!! RUNAWAY!! From this little adorable critter the size of a largish teddy bear...haha....ran into what I think was a brown bear when exploring a forest next to Carrs shopping mall...I think we were both scared...but I ran to the road, and the bear didn't follow....
Manatees. Adorable.
i wish i could swim with one
Manatees are my fave. So docile, forgiving, friendly. They love pets. They're water dogs!
The owl. It owns the night, hunting stealthfully, with its apapted 'soundless' feathers and enhanced night vision.
I'm wondering if we are not all the same creature broken apart by time and space. Are we not all Buddah things??? If not, I'm going with tortoise.
Moose are probably the most awe inspiring when you meet them up close in the wild.
Or when one comes trotting up beside your car as you're driving a back road, doing about 20 mph.
Grass pickerel, smallest member of the pike family.
do they have a bunch of tiny teeth?
Orca (killer whales)
I like the videos of them keeping up with speeding boats
Evil dolphins hmmm
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@SACatWalker
Thanks?Even the homeliest pug is CUTE❣This is the Bae, Kikichan❣