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Even despite the fact that we look at animals all day long, nature still manages to surprise us every once in a while with something amazing . Because nature is amazing and so are animals. And this specific animal - the earless monitor lizard, otherwise known as Lanthanotus borneensis - has managed to take us by surprise, because these little guys look like tiny real life dragons. 

Lizards keep surprising us with how cool they are now that we're thinking about, and so do other super underappreciated animals. And if you know anything about us, you know that we enjoy nothing more than giving love to animals who do not get enough of it. So, enjoy this little underappreciated creature - in all its tiny but fierce glory. 

Everyone, Rory. Rory, everyone. Rory is one of the most adorable geckos we've ever seen. He has stolen our hearts and made us fall in love with geckos even more than we were before. He likes cuddling paper towels, being overly dramatic, scaring his owner when they sleep, and being the cutest gecko of all geckos. 

Who knew that itty bitty lizards like that could have so much personality? If we had known before, we would have actually considered getting one of them. So, thank you tumblr user iwilleatyourenglish, for showing us the awwdorable gecko light. 

If a ten-foot-long dinosaur-looking creature showed up at your house one day, what would you do? Knowing ourselves, we would probably do exactly what this university student did honestly - pick up our phone and film the whole thing. It is not every day, of course, that one gets to encounter a 'dinosaur'.

Of course, the video of the incident that was posted on TikTok that went viral terrified some people while being very amusing to others, specifically, to Australians. As Daily Mail reports, Isabell Ryan who is 18 and lives near Warrigal, was studying when she noticed the enormous reptile - which is either a lace monitor or a tree goanna - come to her glass door. The video, which you can watch below, went viral, and the response was hilarious. 

Though scaredy-cat is a truly appropriate term for real cats since we know cats are scared of basically everything - from random noises to unexpected cucumbers - when push comes to shove, cats are some of the most fearless, unbothered animals that exist. You shouldn't be offended, it's not just you poking them that they're aloof to, that trait of indifference applies to everyone. 

To prove that once and for all, we have compiled a list of some of our favorite cats standing up to other animals that you would probably not expect them to. An owl? Not a problem. A huge bear? Child's play. A king cobra? Pssh, not in this cat's household.

Although… with all this said, personally, we do not recommend counting on your cat to save you from a burglar.

Who knew cats would have such a love and hate relationship with lizards? From personal experience, I've had a cat deliver one too many lizards to my doorstep, some alive, others not. And I've also had a cat do absolutely nothing whenever a lizard was present. 

Cats are odd little killing machines, but every so often, there's a cat who wants nothing to do with that murder instinct and is just... chill. Below is a gallery of cats, some of which seem to have gotten a bit of karma when it comes to lizard hunting, and others who are... cuddling with lizards? One clever commenter noticed that cats love bearded dragons, but hate all other lizards. Interesting observation! 

Well, as we all can confirm -- cats are weird! 

Just when you thought 2020 couldn't get any weirder...

People are scratching their heads over this viral Tiktok video uploaded by stinkyeyescrappy.  

The video, who was taken at Boulder City, Nevada, and garnered more than 2.7M views, shows an alien-looking creature clinging onto a rock with very long human-looking arms as well as several long fingers. The creature is viewed from several angles — along with some appropriately creepy background music.

So far, no one has managed to identify the creepy-looking lizard but many on Tiktok commented and speculated what could it be.     

Who would have thought that geckos could be such funny animals? These funny gecko snapchats are the living proof that these little dinosaurs are absolutely hilarious!

 This may be the most unique pet ever

Bored tennis viewers got a little surprise when something exciting happened during the Miami Open yesterday: An iguana ran on to the court. 

Oh, hell yeah. Check this dude out:

i cannot stop watching this iguana scamper across a tennis courthttps://t.co/pwt9krAajS pic.twitter.com/xVTbJrQLRn

— whitney (@its_whitney) March 22, 2017

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Obviously, people loved this because it's way more interesting than tennis.