These Animals Are Breaking the Species Barrier

It's a wild world out there, and animals are constantly surprising us by breaking the species barrier. Take the "iguana mermaids," for example—marine iguanas native to the Galápagos Islands that have evolved to swim underwater, resembling miniature aquatic dragons. Then there's the fascinating case of ligers and tigons, hybrids of lions and tigers, blending the characteristics of both majestic big cats. Don't forget about narlugas, the rare hybrid offspring of narwhals and beluga whales, sporting the narwhal's iconic tusk and the beluga's rounded head. Credit: CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Jason Hollinger: Hybrid land-marine iguana - https://flic.kr/p/kgtnE2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Hybrid land-marine iguana - https://flic.kr/p/kgtnE2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Tursiops truncatus: James St. John, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Sula nebouxii: Ndecam from London, UK - https://flic.kr/p/atbbZa, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Galapagos Mockingbird: kuhnmi - https://flic.kr/p/2hZkvQR, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Large ground finch: Peter Wilton - https://flic.kr/p/7rGV4d, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Marine iguana: Murray Foubister, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Espanola Marine Iguana: Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Zeedonk: sannse, Colchester Zoo, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Marine Iguana: Patrick Cox - https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/13..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Narwhal hybridisation: Mikkel Høegh Post. Published by Mikkel Skovrind, Jose Alfredo Samaniego Castruita, James Haile, Eve C. Treadaway, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Michael V. Westbury, Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen, Paul Szpak & Eline D. Lorenzen, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Galápagos mockingbird: Nicolas Völcker, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Galapagos Marine Iguana: RuyCalderon, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Hybrid iguana: Gould363, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Iguana marina: Diego Delso, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Landiguana: Benjamint444, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Monodon monoceros: Pcornill, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Denisova-Höhle: Demin Aleksei Barnaul, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Spaceship: Benjamin D. Esham (bdesham), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Homo neanderthalensis: Jakub Hałun, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Denisova Cave: Xenochka, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Homo sapiens neanderthalensis: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... DALL.E Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/ Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.... Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.of... Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices