What's the weirdest name for an animal?

The 12 Weirdest Animal Names
  • of 12. The Screaming Hairy Armadillo. Wikimedia Commons. ...
  • of 12. The Penis Snake. ...
  • of 12. The Paradoxical Frog. ...
  • of 12. The Pleasing Fungus Beetle. ...
  • of 12. The Angora Rabbit. ...
  • of 12. The Raspberry Crazy Ant. ...
  • of 12. The Chicken Turtle. ...
  • of 12. The Ice Cream Cone Worm.
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What is the most complicated animal name?

12 Animals With Hard-to-Spell Names
  • 1/12. Xoloitzcuintli. Family: Canidae. ...
  • 2/12. Uakari. Family: Pitheciidae. ...
  • 3/12. Ankole-Watusi. Family: Bovidae. ...
  • 4/12. Axolotl. Family: Ambystomatidae. ...
  • 5/12. Ptarmigan. Family: Phasianidae. ...
  • 6/12. Kusimanse. Family: Herpestidae. ...
  • 7/12. Coelacanth. Family: Coelacanthidae. ...
  • 8/12. Monte Iberia Eleuth.
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What is the longest name for an animal?

The longest scientific binomial name given to any animal is Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides (containing 42 letters), which is a species of stratiomyid fly with a metallic green thorax and abdomen, known as the soldier fly.
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What animals have inappropriate names?

25 Animals with Funny/Stupid Names
  • White-bellied go-away-bird. ...
  • Mountain Chicken. ...
  • Gorilla gorilla gorilla. ...
  • Tasseled Wobbegong. ...
  • Colon rectum. ...
  • Dik-dik. ...
  • Aploparaksis turdi. ...
  • Agra cadabra.
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What animal has the most nicknames?

The cougar holds the Guinness record for the animal with the greatest number of names, with over 40 in English alone.
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Why Animal Names Are Stupid



What animal has the shortest name?

  • 4 letters. Restoration of Yi qi (4 letters) Ia io Thomas, 1902 – Family Vespertilionidae. ...
  • 5 letters. Drawing of Foa fo (5 letters) Aha ha Menke, 1977 – Family Crabronidae. ...
  • 6 letters. Skull of Beg tse (6 letters) Loa loa (6 letters) ...
  • 7 letters. Copa kei (7 letters) Doto kya (7 letters)
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What animal has the funniest scientific name?

20 Animals With Completely Ridiculous Names
  • of 20. Wunderpus photogenicus. AndamanSE / Getty Images. ...
  • of 20. Spiny Lumpsucker. RLSPHOTO / Getty Images. ...
  • of 20. Pleasing Fungus Beetle. Dr. ...
  • of 20. Pink Fairy Armadillo. ...
  • of 20. Rasberry Crazy Ant. ...
  • of 20. Satanic Leaf-Tailed Gecko. ...
  • of 20. Tasselled Wobbegong. ...
  • of 20. Hellbender.
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What is the weirdest name?

Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116. It's pronounced 'Albin' apparently. This was actually submitted as a protest against the naming law in Sweden, which requires parents to submit a name for approval within three months of birth.
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What is the hardest dinosaur name to pronounce?

Huehuecanauhtlus. Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, a hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of Michoacán, Mexico.
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What word takes 3 hours to say?

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… isoleucine is the chemical name for the protein of “titin” also known as “connectin.” The largest known protein that consists of 26, 926 amino acids is made up of 189, 819 letters and can take about three hours to pronounce.
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What dinosaur has the shortest name?

Yi is notable for having the shortest generic name of any dinosaur, containing only two letters. Its binomial name, Yi qi, is also the shortest possible under articles 11.8.
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What animals can live forever?

To date, there's only one species that has been called 'biologically immortal': the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii. These small, transparent animals hang out in oceans around the world and can turn back time by reverting to an earlier stage of their life cycle.
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What is the most badass animal?

These Are the 25 Toughest Animals on Earth
  • of 25. Deathstalker Scorpion. ...
  • of 25. Mountain Goat. ...
  • of 25. Black Mamba. ...
  • of 25. Weta. ...
  • of 25. Camel. ...
  • of 25. Lion. ...
  • of 25. Harpy Eagle. ...
  • of 25. Siberian Tiger.
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What bug has the longest name?

Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides is a species of fly in the family Stratiomyidae. It is native to Thailand. Its genus name comes from Ancient Greek, meaning "Near soldier wasp-fly", with its species name meaning "wasp fly-like".
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What is called a bear but isn't a bear?

Not a bear, not a cat

The binturong, commonly known as the bearcat, is neither a bear nor a cat.
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What is the ugliest dinosaur?

The 10 Ugliest Dinosaurs
  • of 10. Hippodraco. Lukas Panzarin. ...
  • of 10. Isisaurus. Dmitri Bogdanov. ...
  • of 10. Jeyawati. Lukas Panzarin. ...
  • of 10. Masiakasaurus. Lukas Panzarin. ...
  • of 10. Nigersaurus. Australian Museum. ...
  • of 10. Pegomastax. Pegomastax (Tyler Keillor). ...
  • of 10. Suzhousaurus. Wikimedia Commons. ...
  • of 10. Tianyulong. Nobu Tamura.
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What dinosaur has the longest name?

The Longest Dinosaur Name

The dinosaur with the longest name was Micropachycephalosaurus meaning "tiny thick-headed lizard". Its fossils have been found in China, and it was named in 1978 by the Chinese paleontologist Dong.
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Is Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 a name?

Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, ostensibly pronounced [ˈǎlːbɪn] ("Albin"), is a name intended for a Swedish child who was born in 1991. Parents Elisabeth Hallin and Lasse Diding gave their child this name to protest a fine, imposed in accordance with the naming law in Sweden.
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Who named Kid 7?

Seven, Puma and Mars, kids of Erykah Badu

Erykah Badu's baby names are as random as it gets. The singer welcomed son Seven, whom she shares with André 3000, in 1997.
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What is a rare name?

Rare Baby Names You'll Fall In Love With
  • Noe. Shutterstock. Pronounced "NO-e," this name is a variation of the more popular Noah. ...
  • Melina. Shutterstock. ...
  • Niko. Shutterstock. ...
  • Cassandra. Shutterstock. ...
  • Sage. Shutterstock. ...
  • Renata. Shutterstock. ...
  • Lennon. Shutterstock. ...
  • Viviana. Shutterstock.
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What is a good pet name?

Top dog names
  • Female: Bella, Luna, Lucy, Daizy, Zoe, Lily, Lola, Bailey, Stella, Molly.
  • Male: Max, Charlie, Milo, Buddy, Rocky, Bear, Leo, Duke, Teddy, Tucker.
  • Female: Luna, Bella, Lily, Lucy, Nala, Kitty, Chloe, Stella, Zoe, Lola.
  • Male: Oliver, Leo, Milo, Charlie, Max, Simba, Jack, Loki, Ollie, Jasper.
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What's an animal that starts with an A?

Albatross, Anaconda, Anteater, Antelope, Alligator, Ape, Armadillo. Introduce toddlers and preschoolers to the magic of the Alphabetimals by exploring animals beginning with the letter A.
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What only lives for 24 hours?

#1: Mayfly — The Shortest Lifespan of Any Known Animal

These insects are the shortest living animals on the planet, as the adult lifespan of a fly from this species is only 24 hours.
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