An addendum to my post a while back listing some strange animals:
The opabinia regalis was a creature some 500 million years ago that was so strange-looking that the paleontologists who were shown the reconstructed image back in 1972 thought it was a joke. It had five eyes, a flexible proboscis one third the length of its body with grasping spines at its tip.
The hallucigenia sparsa is so bizarre that scientists still aren't sure which end houses the 'head'.
The anomalocaris canadensis grew up to six feet in length, and had forelimbs that more resembled the tails of a modern shrimp.
The leanchoilia superlata had tripartite forelimbs with long, whip-like extensions--possibly sensory organs, since it didn't appear to have any eyes.
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