15 Strangest Things Recently Discovered In Brazil!

every country has its share of strange things but our research shows that Brazil seems to have more strange things than any other set of places like Westeros obviously but for those that have never visited this strange part of the world let us fill you in from an absurdly large anaconda to a brand-new kind of monkey here are the 15 strangest things recently discovered in Brazil number 15 33 foot anaconda and pretty much any other list a 33 foot long anaconda would easily make it into the top 15 strangest discoveries but that just goes to prove how wild Brazil can truly be as anybody with basic knowledge of anacondas knows these are huge snakes already but 33 feet I'm never leaving my house again a group of workers were carrying out a controlled explosion in the cave of Altamira when one of them happened to spot something lurking in the darkness after realizing that they were staring straight into the uncertain face of danger the workers made the decision to protect themselves by getting a closer look at what they were looking at after chaining the animal to a crane because why not the workers lifted it to reveal the familiar yellow underbelly confirming their suspicions this was an anaconda while animal rights activists have openly criticised the workers decision to chained the animal up it's hard to imagine what else you could have done maybe just willingly become snake food the idea of any kind of 33 foot long snake is pretty horrifying but there's something especially unsettling about it being an anaconda these are devastatingly powerful creatures capable of inflicting a lot of harm with minimal effort come to think of it they should all be chained up to cranes before we go on we have a cool challenge for y'all that will take five seconds to complete let's make a deal just to leave a like on this video smash that subscribe button and hit the notification bell and you will get 10 years of amazing luck and fortune try it it actually works number 14 TD monkey that's right a TD monkey get it out of your systems now we'll wait okay we're ready to continue good scientists exploring the region of Rondonia happened to somehow discover a whole new species of this monkey entirely by chance many people would be grateful to see an unexpected TD you should expect more quality lowbrow jokes like this as far back as 1914 a subspecies of the TD was believed to have been found by experts but the findings were all but dismissed due to its similarity to ordinary T DS for the decades that followed people just had to accept the idea that Mother Nature blessed the world with one kind of tea and any talk of another kind was nothing but a bust still scientists really worked to keep abreast with developments and while studying how deforestation of the Brazilian bush would affect the monkey population of Rondonia Mara Luce messiah's discovered a whole new kind of TD this new kind of monkey had a completely different for a color to the traditional tea tea a reddish brown shade as opposed to the standard ashy black tone soon the news was confirmed the world has a new kind of TD in it everyone got excited by that until they realized it wasn't what they thought number 13 mysterious tunnels pretty much every country in the world has its own mysteries from hidden gardens to secret bars but Brazil's secrets seem to extend much farther than just a few hidden tourist traps maybe around in 2010 geologist al Makar aadmi happened to stumble upon a giant hole just north of the Bolivian border and quickly concluded that it could not have been man-made after venturing inside it sounds like a horror movie doesn't it Adam II discovered a series of unusual tunnels that seemed to weave all across the Brazilian wilderness for hundreds and hundreds of feet at a time further exploration revealed at least 2,000 tunnels across Brazil but how are they built while many legends and theories paint pictures of everything from slaves to bears the actual geological evidence is something more curious thanks to mysterious claw marks on the walls of the caves geologists have concluded that the tunnels were likely dug by some kind of animal perhaps giant armadillos or mega sloths but for now nobody actually knows who dug the tunnels or why it's a Brazilian mystery number 12 unrecognizable virus long before the world had ever heard of kovat 19 scientists in Brazil were finding novel viruses all of their own however this particular virus was different for one unique reason it made no sense whatsoever even for people that know what they're talking about which in case it wasn't already clear is not me a group of scientists exploring Lake PEM Paulo were the first to discover the mysterious a moba virus though it almost took no time at all before they found they couldn't identify where it actually came from after taking a sample of the so called Yara virus into the lab the scientists compared it to their database of over 8500 metagenomes from other genetic samples and quickly found that only 10% of the virus had any relation to anything in the database that leaves 90% of the virus completely unanswered for it's basically the setup for a horror movie but if that horror movie was 90% incomprehensible despite the efforts of scientists the world over gara virus remains a complete mystery some have theorized that it's a simple animal virus that has been able to mutate over time though scientists stress there is no science to back that up still when has science ever stopped us from claiming things number 11 new dinosaur it's been hundreds of millions of years since they were wiped off the face of the planet and yet we're somehow still discovering new species of dinosaur but while most of the new findings have turned out to be pretty similar one Brazilian paleontologist found a whole new mysterious species of a prehistoric animal over 50 years ago paleontologists exploring the piranha region discovered some mysterious one toad footprints in the dirt though nobody could agree what specific species made them as all dinosaurs discovered in Brazil had been three-toed or theropod dinosaurs decades later in 2019 near IDEs Martin's and her fellow paleontologists conducted another excavation in the piranha region when they discovered an unusual fossil to the paleontologist Jacques the fossil was perfectly preserved about the size of a Great Dane and most intriguingly had a very unique foot this dinosaur known as the Vesper Soros Paranaense as' was three tonne so it's usual anatomy suggested that it more often moved around the middle toe as if it only had one this discovery explained exactly what paleontologists 50 years earlier suspected that some of brazil's dinosaurs moved in a more unique way than expected I can only imagine that dinosaur would have loved high heels number 10 human sized rat if you're at all afraid of rats then you should probably prepare yourself for what's coming for years Godzilla and King Kong have been movie fantasies ordinary animals transformed into giant monsters now apparently there are entirely feasible real-world creations prepare to meet rat Zilla according to experts and paleontologists Brazil was once the home to a giant human sized rat you heard that correctly around 10 million years ago in the Amazon rainforest the Neo epiblast OA has we're calling it was thriving in nature and we never knew about it until now if the fossils reflect an average rat Silla the creature was around five feet long and weighed up to 80 kilograms that's 20 kilograms heavier than our heaviest rodent alive the capybara and we thought the rats on the subway were bad as if that's not scary enough this rat Zilla was apparently so big that very few predators even dared to go near it if that's not the basis for a great horror movie I don't know what is given the fact that it's the size of an average human woman it's pretty insane to think that nobody ever knew this thing existed maybe those people in Godzilla were right we have been messing with things that should not have been messed with number 9 Amazon tribe member while most of us would happily pass up the opportunity to go wandering aimlessly through the Amazon rainforest there are others that are just straight-up nuts a group of documentary filmmakers exploring the rainforest happened to spot what must surely have been the last thing they expected a half-naked man swinging an axe through the jungle thankfully we now have an explanation but it's still kind of weird throughout the 1970s 80s and 90s land grabbers and other industry figures began the unethical and brutal series of massacres on the indigenous tribes of the Amazon hundreds if not thousands of innocent people died as a result including the other members of this man's tribe it's now believed that this tribesman is the last survivor of his group who just happened to be discovered completely by accident in 1996 since then he's been monitored by a group established to protect the indigenous population from any additional trouble meaning he's never been safer the indigenous man in the hole as he's commonly known is clearly in good health and continues to keep his distance from the outside world in many ways he was the original master at social distancing man these tribes were really ahead of their time number eight giant emerald stone it's not every day that something found buried in the grounds of a farm is ultimately locked up in a high-security location but then this isn't just something this is a 238 million pound emerald stone so not your typical find now unless you're used to finding gemstones hidden inside potatoes that is the rock itself was discovered in a gem mining field though it's fair to say that the owner had never never seen something quite so valuable at four and a half feet tall and weighing seven hundred and ninety-four pounds the stone was discovered hidden in the rocks of the quarry and was quickly determined to contain around 180,000 carats of pure emerald crystals making it one of the most valuable rocks in the world so valuable in fact that the owner has basically had to go into the witness protection program nobody knows his name nor his whereabouts and the rock is moved from place to place with a high-security armed guard that's right a bodyguard for a rock but while it would seem on paper that the owner would be in for a windfall the reality is actually something very different this anonymous man has said that he's living in fear at constant risk of kidnapping extortion or just an armed robbery turns out the Emerald is not always greener number seven ancient turn light kingdom as we come to know more and more about our world the more bizarre it seems to be ancient history has told us that every major civilization has built a kingdom all of its own but that's not just for humans researchers in Brazil found a massive complex of up to 200 million termite mounds making up its very own kingdom and what's more interesting it's around four thousand years old there are termites older than us the kingdom as a whole covers an area of Brazil about the size of Great Britain a whopping ninety three thousand and a half square miles and yes a complex as big as that is obviously visible on Google Earth with many of the termite mounds rising as highest 10 feet high however if you're brave enough to go and see the kingdom in person prepare to be disappointed as most of the mounds are very difficult to see from ground level after all a kingdom doesn't much like to be spied on while there is no concrete way to know how long it took for the species to build this incredible complex of tunnels there's no question that it's an incredible and kind of Bruce find number 6 fluorescent frogs if the human eye is capable of seeing a great many things but ultra tiny microbes is not one of them through the use of a UV lamp we can experience a hidden world that would otherwise be lost to us a world of gross stains germs and dirt admittedly but a world nonetheless while studying pumpkin toadlets discovered in the Brazilian Atlantic forest a group of scientists made a shocking discovery when held beneath a UV lamp these tones had mysterious fluorescent patterns upon their back and head and were completely invisible in natural light while the reason for this is unknown it's commonly believed that the patterns are used to communicate with other animals perhaps warning potential predators that they're toxic kind of like how people that smell bad weren't potential dates that they have bad hygiene while the study in question didn't explain why or how these particular frogs are able to use this technique to their advantage it did reveal yet another mystery of nature there may be few things more strange than an animal that glows with no particular reason for doing so number five phallic snake no we're not talking about the trouser snake although it's not a million miles away a group of engineers working in Brazil happened to stumble upon an unusual looking snake hiding in the Amazon VAT depending on whom you asked looked like an earthworm or well you know what it looks like this creature is actually not a snake at all but a Sicilian a limbless amphibian that lives in the water according to biologists six specimens were discovered although there is still not much else known about the mysterious Falcon creature other than the fact that it has no lungs and breathes through its skin that's about it lucky for us the phallic snake can't actually attack humans as it much prefers tiny prey like fish worms and other sea creatures these mysterious little animals have been found all over the Amazon River and at varying sizes but size isn't everything the Sicilian is an intriguing animal and it's certainly a noble quest for any scientist who wants to know more about the penis snake but there is one last thing we need to know we know that the phallic snake has notoriously bad eyesight number 4 last frogs the animal kingdom may have creatures of just about every stripe and color but what about those that have neither animals like for example the glass frogs a rare species of frog that has a very intriguing translucent skin and when we say rare we mean rare for the first time in over 18 years conservationists made a sighting of these rare frogs while exploring a Brazilian National Park that little fact alone just goes to show if you've ever lost something wait 18 years and you'll find it again somewhere in Brazil these tiny frogs weigh less than a gram and have skins so translucent that you can barely even see it instead you just see the internal organs through their little stomachs that's really gross it's always pretty amazing to see animals make a sudden reappearance after such a long period but these are in a league of their own in terms of strangeness these animals are definitely an impressive creation of nature but I for one am pretty happy that it's a rare occurrence because I don't really want to see anybody's organs through their skin number 3 electric eel sure an electric eel may not sound particularly strange but imagine this you're some kind of scientist exploring the Amazon basin and you discover an eel that seems to be capable of conducting something much more than just your typical electrical current what do you do common sense says you go home and pretend you saw nothing but we all know that's not the scientific way after studying the eel now known as Electra Forestville tie that definitely sounds cooler than very electric eel scientists concluded that this was not just any eel but the most powerful electric eel on the whole planet the electro Forestville ty has the ability to generate up to seven times as much electricity as that of a power outlet up to 860 volts a lethal amount for any normal human and over 200 volts more than the typical electric eel to touch it would be like licking a live wire which is not fun learn from my mistake kids I haven't tasted anything in four years still even with this kind of power this electric eel doesn't abuse its abilities rather than using it to kill just about any buddy that may take it off the EO uses it to stun its prey I don't imagine humans would be quite so restrained give a human electric abilities and put them in a traffic jam see what happens number two river dolphin a river dolphin anywhere would be pretty strange given just how rare these animals are but to find one hanging around in Brazil is just a little extra strange why you ask well because we say it is we don't have to explain ourselves this particular species of river dolphin the inia ergo ANSYS is completely different from other seven known species in 2014 a team of scientists working on behalf of the Federal University of Amazonas discovered this whole new species of pink river dolphin surviving in the Araguaia River and immediately began an exploration of the species while the specifics of the species are still unknown it's believed that this new animal has made its home in the area with many tourists claiming to have spotted this most unusual creature and what's more exciting is that there is another species of river dolphin living nearby the boto pink dolphins how amazing is that as far as strange things to find in Brazil a whole new species of already rare breed of dolphin is definitely one of the most unusual still people seem to be loving them and still as of yet nobody has fallen into the river number one merit Kawara gazmin a given just how much we know about our planet's animal kingdom the discovery of any new species will always be considered a strange and unusual event but in the case of the merritt Kawara gazmin a pretty much everything about it is strange while this fish is beautiful to look at it's definitely not one of the easiest to find which may explain why nobody discovered it before 2017 in fact this fish was found lurking just fifty centimeters beneath the surface of a temporary pond on an island in the middle of the Xingu River so it's pretty easy to see how this teeny tiny fish managed to evade any sign of capture after all how many people will be exploring ponds on islands in rivers that's a pretty nice hobby this animal was just one of 300 one new species discovered living in the Amazon in the same year making it one of the most unexplored areas on the planet for animal activity but it's also a great reminder for a mature animal explorers be sure to develop nice hobbies like exploring ponds on islands and rivers you never know when that's going to come in handy which of these discoveries do you think was the strangest let us know in the comments also check out our other cool stuff showing up on the screen right now see you next time [Music]

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Published: Sat May 02 2020