Today on the show we’re talking about ridiculous species names, and learning all about the animals behind them. Can you really judge a pigbutt worm by its name? Or a screaming hairy armadillo? Or a lumpsucker fish?

Footnotes:

1. Pigbutt worm:
2. Pigbutt worm face: 
3. Lumpsuckers! 
4. Lil lumpsucker sucking on a finger
5. Lumpsuckers on balloons
6. Lumpsuckers sucking on lumpsuckers
7. Tassled wobbegong
8. Hellbender salamander
9. Screaming hairy armadillo
10. Screaming hairy armadillo, well, screaming
11. Cinereous mourner
12. Cinereous mourner acting
13. Fried egg jellyfish
14. Red-lipped batfish
15. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/p/proboscis-monkey/