5 Animals With Weird Noses

From mandrills to unicornfish, nature is full of unusual schnozzes.

After falling in love with the newly rediscovered Pinocchio lizard, we thought we’d look up the noses of some other animals with ornate schnozzes.

You know all about the elephant, the star-nosed mole, and the proboscis monkey, whose nose is right there in its name. But we sniffed out a few Cyranos that might not leap to mind quite as quickly.

You know it’s impolite to stare, but it’s hard to help it when you look at the fantastic, funny, and somewhat unsettling unicornfish. In adulthood, four of the 18 species of this Indo-Pacific fish, like the whitemargin unicornfish (Naso annulatus), acquire a hornlike ornament, hence their dreamy name.

It’s unknown, as of now, what the horns are for—except

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