Animals That Were Clearly Designed By Satan
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There are some animal features that just put the heebie-jeebies in us. Even though some of those animals are totally harmless. Did nature evolve “scary” features for a reason? Or is it just the work of the devil? Let’s take a look and see.
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LINKS LINKS LINKS
https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals-the-ocean/animals-a-to-z/japanese-spider-crab
https://furbearerconservation.com/the-opossum-benefits-misconceptions
https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals-the-ocean/animals-a-to-z/melibe
https://www.creativebloq.com/3d/what-makes-good-movie-monster-91413020
https://www.creativereview.co.uk/how-to-make-a-movie-monster/
https://www.americanarachnology.org/about-arachnids/arachnid-orders/amblypygi/
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Ametrida_centurio/
https://sta.uwi.edu/fst/lifesciences/sites/default/files/lifesciences/images/Ametrida%20centurio%20-%20Little%20White-shouldered%20Bat.pdf
https://www.mbari.org/animal/pacific-viperfish/
https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/ocean/layers-of-ocean
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/201417-Scolopendra-gigantea
https://www.cdc.gov/taeniasis/about/index.html
https://a-z-animals.com/blog/what-do-tapeworms-eat/
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Intro
2:28 – Design Elements
6:23 – Joe Scott’s Four Quadrant System
8:25 – Top 5 Animals Designed by Satan
15:44 – Sponsor – Nebula
17:13 – Conclusion

@marksmith1824
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
I was on a diving holiday in Borneo about 20 years ago. Before every dive, the local guide carefully checked his boots. I asked him why. He told me about the local aggressive centipede that likes living in dive boots and what it feels like to get bitten by one. I laughed. Then made sure I carefully checked my dive boots before every dive for the local aggressive centipede that like living in dive boots. 😂
@dibth
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
You left out ear wigs.
@shadowprince4482
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
FYI some species of anglerfish do get really big. Like up to 4 feet long. Also I think the bobbit work takes the case for nightmare fuel.
@caribbeanman3379
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
Animals didn't evolve to look scary. We evolved to have an aversion to the sight of animals with predatory or dangerous features, because such aversion gave us a survival advantage.
@StarDarkAshes
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
Why is it we think that fluffy furry animals are cute and then we look at a hairless cat or the tale of a rat and we think it’s gross? Look at humans they’ve got like basically no hair at all except on their head and their genitals. So humans must be the ugliest animals pretty much ever.(and I do know how to spell TAIL but apparently this stupid voice to text doesn’t understand through context how to spell yet. 🙄)
@ppsayl1235
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
Uncanny valley.
@felinedaze2058
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
This was not a good idea to watch just before I went to sleep. However, it was entertaining and informative.
For me, I've come across some real life …close encounters 😱 when I lived in Weenen, KZN, South Africa. From a huge Black Mamba; Rock pythons, (one was 6ft long ); Hooded Spitting Cobras; scorpions, (large pinchers and fat stinger); black and brown widow spiders; a crocodile. But the scariest of all of them was a Solifugae. We called them Roman Spiders, but also known as Sun Spiders.
@stevejohnson3357
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
If there was a baby goods store called "Uncles" it would obviously stock plushies of a number of these, starting with the star nosed mole (always a favorite of mine).
@jonpeterson9733
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
all creatures perfectly designed for a specific role in our environment. it should come as no surprise that perfection viewed through imperfect eyes/mind would see evil where none exists or glaringly miss what's deadly. the malignant detour of imperfect human history is about to come full circle. imperfection was always temporary, so is an environment that matches our destructive nature.
@Baelthaazar
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
This a good one Joe.
@sweetpuppies1065
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
My top five, and I get an add for the Opel Corsa right then.
@gracepreston4179
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
I think if we renamed the White Shouldered Bat to the Unicorn Bat, people would like it more! 😅
@ThomasShields-s1v
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
I think they had to eat live whip scorpions on an episode of Fear Factor. 😱
@chasecarter8848
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
No legs problematic, two legs good, 4 legs probably good, 6 legs questionable, 8 legs or more problematic.
Humans really dont like it when something moves "wrong", but I think thats an artifact of us not likeing non mammals.
Its pretty easy to guess whether another mammal is predator, prey or peer: I dont eat tigers, and generally they dont attempt to eat me. Deer pose no threat to me, predatory or otherwise, and telling the difference is easy.
Snakes, bugs, spiders and the like are harder to judge and sometimes dangerous in weird ways out of all proportion to size. They also turn up in the darndest places. You wont find a tiger in your boot, and tigers cant kill you by nibbling your toe. Tigers are big, obvious and predictable, snakes and spiders are not.
Furthernore, you can reason with another mammal to some degree. A tiger, upon seeing there are three of us and that we see him, isnt apt to attack. One cannot reason with a snake or a spider.
Then, most other mammals find humans frightening, especially in numbers, and they tend to avoid us. The non mammals want to avoid us too, but they arent quite as good at it and stumbling into them is common. Accidentally stepping on a tiger is highly unlikely.
Then, when a tiger does go for you, the method and timing and reason youre dying make sense: mechanical trauma and blood loss because you are food. Snake and spider bites are rarely (if ever) predatory and they injure in wierd confusing ways and often over a far longer timeline than a tiger attack.
Its not some quirk or accident that we largely dont like non mammals, its survival.
@bobbytables464
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
Jumping spiders are also freaking adorable. I must have low heebie-jeebie propensity because unless the animal is doing something grotesque like the tongue louse, mere appearance doesn't bug me at all.
@Mac_McGill
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
I had to stop at "soda can".
Please dont ever do that to me again.
@helpeytb
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
Great vuf
14;06 4h
Great vufei
@SanRafaelSwell
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
Frilled sharks are harmelsss. Wtf, Joe???.
@cdexter7110
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
30 cm? Is that, like, the size of a car?
@RoseHayes-321
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
6:34 AKA the Looks like a Cinnamon Roll and Could Kill You chart
@stevejones9905
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
Imagine being the first person to see a giant spider crab—and then trying to convince everyone it was real. “No, seriously, this crab was enormous. Its legs were three to four feet long.”
“Sure, but where is it?”
“Too deep to reach. I couldn’t dive down that far, but I saw it.”
“Yeah, sure you did.”
@jfh667
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
I was expecting some cats in cute but deadly. I mean you cant tell me a leopard isnt the cutest thing ever. Nor that it cant pry your skull open .
@Raziel1984
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
12:01 TOXICOGNATHS !!!
@chrisreed7097
August 3, 2026 at 6:17 pm
Welp. I guess I have a new spider to be afraid of.
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