While some biologists believe the gator may be half albino, experts with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission believe the animal’s odd color is the result of paint or stain that spilled into its habitat.

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Have you met the sea pig yet? He’s a disgustingly fascinating creature that lives at the bottom of the sea and lives off of any rotting nastiness that falls to the ocean floor. Somehow he’s still kind of cute though.

This little sea piglet is one of 15 animals Web Ecoist chose as the top  strangest animals. The list is certainly worth a look.

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Catherine Brahic of New Scientist blog wrote a pretty neat post about the weirdest animals species of 2008. Take, for instance, the "bone breaking horror frog":

“Amphibian horror” isn’t a movie genre, but on this evidence perhaps it should be. In May, biologists described a hairy frog that actively breaks its own bones to produce claws that puncture their way out of the frog’s toe pads, probably when it is threatened.

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