10 Unusual Animals That Are Beautiful In Their Weirdness

The natural world is full of so many amazing creatures, isn't it? Some are beautiful, some are scary as hell, but a lot of them sit in that fuzzy gray area of being pretty cool or even just kind of pretty, but also being downright weird.

3. For the most part, I am not a fan of danger noodles, nope ropes, snakes, whatever you call them. Sunbeam snake, (genus Xenopeltis), any of two species of primitive, nonvenomous, burrowing snakes of family Xenopeltidae distributed geographically from Southeast Asia to Indonesia and the Philippines. Sunbeam snakes belong to a single genus (Xenopeltis) and are characterized by smooth, glossy, iridescent scales. The coloration of Xenopeltis is chocolate-brown or purplish black above and white below. It has a small, depressed head, cylindrical body, and an average length of 1 metre (3 feet)—although some individuals may grow to 1.3 metres (about 4 feet). Of the two species, X. unicolor is more widespread and better known, whereas X. hainanensis is limited to isolated pockets in southeastern China.