12 Photos Of Strange Animals You Probably Didn't Know Exist

Most of us don’t have the idea of animal species that are on the Earth today, and we even get surprised as we find out there are some cool animals we haven’t heard of before.

Superb Bird of Paradise: Birds-of-paradise have some of the world's strangest and most elaborate courtship displays. In the rainforests of New Guinea, for instance, the male superb bird-of-paradise (Lophorina superba) puts on the now-famous bouncing "smiley face" dance routine, spreading out its black feather cape in an oval shape, until all that's visible in the pitch blackness of its body are its bright blue-green breast plate and shining blue eyes. The male then hops around the female in circles, hoping to win her over.