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North America//Conservation Status Unknown//Osteicthyes //photo source

The Alligator Gar can live to be over 50 years old, but the average lifespan in the wild is closer to 20 years. Unusually for a fish, it can survive out of water for up to two hours.

South America//Conservation Status Unknown//Anura//image source

Fun Fact: The transparent skin of glass frogs makes it hard for predators to spot them.

South America//Conservation Status Unknown//Arthropoda//image source

Fun Fact: Female horsehead grasshoppers are twice as large as the males. (Check out the “image source” link - they have a bunch of great pictures of these bizarre bugs!)

North America//Conservation Status Unknown//Arthropoda//image source

Fun Fact: They are called hangingflies because they often hang from surfaces by their front legs. The scorpion-tail-like appendage is actually the male reproductive organ.

Indian & Pacific Oceans//Conservation Status Unknown//Bony Fish//image source

Fun Fact: Garden eels feed on passing plankton. It is very rare for one to completely leave its burrow.

Southwest North America//Conservation Status Unknown//Squamata//image source

Fun Fact: Like many whiptail lizards, the grassland whiptail is an all-female species. After engaging in “pseudocopulation” with other females, they lay unfertilized eggs which hatch into exact clones of the mother.