What Is the Rarest Animal on Earth?

The world’s rarest animal is a kind of Tenrec, a small, burrowing, insect-eating mammal that lives on Madagascar and some other islands in the Indian Ocean.

Only one specimen of Tenrec has ever been found!

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12 Comments

  1. Keshav
    Posted 2009/02/06 at 5:02 am | Permalink

    the rarest animal is going to be the puma

  2. Anonymous
    Posted 2009/04/13 at 9:06 pm | Permalink

    the rarest animal on earth currently is the Pinta Island tortoise in the Galapagos islands. “Lonesome George” is the only surviving member of the species, and there is a $10,000 reward for the person that finds a surviving female.

  3. Anonymous
    Posted 2009/11/04 at 5:42 pm | Permalink

    XD loooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i sat here lughing so hard 4 10 minutes ”the rarest animal is going to be the puma” NOW THATS WAT I CALL A CLASSIC!!! DATS HILLARIOUS MAN XD!!!!! LOL THE MOUNTAIN LION IS NO WHERE NEAR BEING RARE!! I NEW DAT N IM ONLEE 11

  4. Anonymous
    Posted 2009/11/04 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

    O_o XD!!!!!! LOL THATS FUNNY MOUNTAIN LIONS ARE KNOW WHERE BEING RARE!!!!! MY NAME IZ NOT ”ANONYMOUS” :(

  5. Anonymous
    Posted 2009/11/18 at 1:43 am | Permalink

    …or an honest politician…

  6. Anonymous
    Posted 2009/11/21 at 11:15 am | Permalink

    I think one of the rarest yet most robust animals on Earth may be the Loch Ness “monster”, which, if it exists and is not a hoax created by a model submarine, may be represented by as little as one family.

  7. Anonymous
    Posted 2009/12/06 at 12:19 pm | Permalink

    Platypuses are the only mammal that lay eggs so I’ll say platypuses are the rarest animal on earth :) (: Just like Phineas and Ferb on Disney Channel Perry the platypus(Agent P) vs. Dr. Doofenshmirtz winner and champion and always will be Agent P(Perry the Platypus).

  8. Anonymous
    Posted 2009/12/09 at 7:05 am | Permalink

    They don’t do much you know.

  9. Anonymous
    Posted 2009/12/25 at 9:59 am | Permalink

    “Swinhoe’s soft-shell turtle” was thought to be extinct in nature. Cleveland Metroparks Zoo has just announced the discovery of a critically endangered turtle in northern Vietnam that previously was thought to be extinct in the wild. Experts from the Zoo’s Asian Turtle Program confirmed that they have identified the only known living specimen of a Swinhoe’s soft-shell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) in nature.

  10. MrScience
    Posted 2010/02/03 at 5:26 pm | Permalink

    I don’t get it. I heard that a puma once attacked a person. If you think logically, you would probably think that if a puma attacked a person, then they probably have a larger population than thought, Keshav. So please shut up.

  11. kiss my ass
    Posted 2010/03/11 at 2:48 pm | Permalink

    none of yall no wat ur talkin bout…..the rarest animal is a racoon……duh….you dumb asses

  12. pineapple ndr da sea
    Posted 2010/03/11 at 4:25 pm | Permalink

    wat is dat

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