“It’s Just As Horrific As It Sounds”: 50 Disturbing Truths About Animals You Might Wish You Didn’t Know

Ravens work with wolves. They find prey and lead wolves to it. while wolves hunt, ravens wait with the wolf pups. After the hunt, they share the food.

Jumping spiders remember faces. And can become friends if you’re nice.

Some animals, such as tigers, can produce infrasound, sound so low you feel it. It can cause “zaps” of pain, headaches, an impending sense of doom, extreme fear and more side effects

Crows and Corvids in general can remember human faces and have the emotional intelligence to hold grudges.

4 words: Crocodiles. Can. Climb. Trees.

A specific type of jellyfish called the Turritopsis Dohrnii, can reprogramme the identity of its own cells - returning to an earlier stage of its life. Meaning they are biologically immortal.

A polar bear can smell prey over a distance of 25 km.

An octopus can fit through anything as long as its larger than its mouth (which is a beak btw)

Sharks' and dolphins' reputations need to be switched.

T rexs had soft padding on their feet. So unlike the movies where they're shown stomping around and causing the water in the glass to vibrate, their footsteps could almost never be felt. They also did not have loud roars but rather a much lower roar that could only be felt. So yeah imagine THAT stalking you millions of years ago after sundown.

There’s a parasite that crawls into a fish’s mouth, eats its tongue, then becomes the new tongue, the fish lives using the parasite to eat.

Not a scary science fact but a cool one- sharks are older than trees, grass and the North Star.

Hairy frogs, or wolverine frogs, are incredibly aggressive and will attack small birds and even humans. They do this by breaking their own bones and pushing it through the skin to use as claws! (Wolverine frog 🔥)

The fur of a platypus glows under black light, and their bills can detect electric signals from prey.

There used to 9 or more species of humans 300,000 years ago.

There is only 1 now.

This is also likely where the uncanny valley phenomenon comes from, we had to fear something that looks human but wasn’t “us”

Humans have caused 881 confirmed extinctions and 2372 possible extinctions AND 10,031 critically endangered species.

The Cordyceps fungus that infects insects & makes them move around is actually attacking everything but the brain. Meaning they are fully aware of what’s happening but can’t do anything about it. Like they’ve lost control of the ride & are puppets in their own bodies. The creepiest thing is they only attack bugs & things of the same size & smaller because they have an abundance.. the only thing separating us from this fungus is 10 degrees.. but some say that with the rising temperatures of our planet, if they decide to adapt to a higher a temp, they can easily effect us in the future ☠️

The lyrebird's cry sounds like a baby crying probably causing some myths or mysteries within forests.

We simply do not know where Whale Sharks go to birth their young. In addition to how little we know about their mating rituals as there are very few recorded cases of it being caught in the wild, tagged Whale Sharks are found migrating somewhere off of the coast of the Galápagos Islands, dive upwards of 300+ feet to where we lose track of them and they simply vanish. We are still actively searching for the nursery in which Whale Sharks have their young.

Hyenas are extremely intelligent, spotted hyenas regularly outperform chimpanzees on tests of cooperative problem solving.