If you want to design a truly bizarre alien creature, you really don’t need to look farther than our own animal kingdom for inspiration. And some Earth-dwelling critters look especially odd when they’re first hatching into the world. Don’t believe us? Check out these videos of not-so-cute hatchlings.
Baby black widows hatching
Platypuses hatching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Y2h5zjpWU
A Lord Howe Island stick insect hatching from a tiny egg, recorded by zookeeper Rohan Cleave from Melbourne Zoo in Australia
The birth of bees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMtFYt7ko_o
Birth of fourteen black mambas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCQrEdhbGro
Newborn Octopodes
A monarch caterpillar hatching from its egg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeLzhSaJ7vw
Gulf klillfish (Fundulus grandis), hatching under the microscope
Hatching mosquito eggs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwIqGbhq4T8
Stink bug eggs hatching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXSon0q9LqE
