Animal iceberg

Animal iceberg is an iceberg chart topic from r/IcebergCharts. The highest-scoring chart on it, "the ULTIMATE animal iceberg", was posted by u/FeeIcy9908 on 22 July 2022 and had about 283 upvotes when it was collected. The subreddit has 12 other charts on the same or closely related topics; see Other versions.

"The ULTIMATE animal iceberg" is a hand-drawn chart with seven labelled tiers of animal species, scientists, prehistoric creatures and animal facts. It descends from common knowledge to disturbing facts about the animal kingdom. Entries reflect the chart author's choices and are not verified fact.

"the ULTIMATE animal iceberg" by u/FeeIcy9908 (22 July 2022)

Tiers

Most known facts and animals

• Dinosaurs
• Charles Darwin
• biologist
• Zoology
• Humans are primates
• The blue whale
• Great white shark
• Peta
• Jane Goodall
• Dart frogs
• Dodo bird
• T-rex
• Tasmanian tiger
• Mammoth
• Megalodon
• Trillobites
• Blobfish
• Venus fly trap
• National Geographic
• Otters hold hands
• Flamingos are not pink
• Salamanders are able to regenerate lost limbs
• Cockroaches can survive radiation
• Ok I pull up meme
• Cats "domesticated" themselves
• Cats were worshipped by the Egyptians
• A group of ferrets is called a business
• The black panther is really actually a leopard
• Sea monkeys

Not known as much but still known

• Spinosaurus was a specialised underwater hunter
• Amber
• Arthroplerua
• Megamouth didn't exist
• Washed up whales
• Mongolian death worm
• Mummified animals
• Speculative zoology
• Sir Richard owen
• Rick Anderson
• Tardigrades

Weird animals

• Mayfly
• The horned lizard
• Greenland shark
• The Japanese Spider Crab
• Honeypot ants
• Vinegaroon
• Sea spider
• Acanthaspis petax
• Penis snake
• Handfish
• Dinosaur shrimp
• The sorting hat spider
• The spider tailed Horned viper
• leaf sheep
• yeti crab
• Scorpion fly
• Humming hawk moth
• Mole cricket
• Mantis fly
• Cock of the rock
• Christmas tree worm
• The strap-toothed whale
• Titycaca frog
• the Frogmouth bird
• Potoo bird
• atlas moth
• Jeremy the snail

Prehistory

• Hallucigenia
• platybelodon
• Archaeoindris
• Anomalocarid
• Therizinosaur
• Jaekelopterus
• The terror birds
• Hypuronector
• Eunotosaurs
• Koolasuchus

Weird facts

• Dolphins use toxic pufferfish to 'get high'
• Everything will "eventually" turn into crabs
• The Giant Pacific Octopus has 3 hearts, 9 brains and blue blood
• Polar bears have black skin
• Koala's have fingerprints identical to human
• crows can understand physics
• Pea Crabs spend their whole lives inside clams
• The U.S. military trained bottlenose dolphins
• There are no 'male' Mourning geckos
• Sperm whales in the Caribbean have an accent.
• Some sharks glow in the dark.
• some snails have hairy shells
• Slow lorises are the only venomous primates
• Cows produce more milk when listening to slow music
• Wombat poop is cube-shaped
• For every human in the world there are one million ants
• Kangaroos can't fart
• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet
• Ants never sleep
• Goats were the first animals domesticated by man
• zoophobia
• squirrels see in slow motion

Disturbing/scary animals

• The dementor wasp
• Mike the headless chicken
• Lesula
• Bigfin squid
• The flying buttocks
• The zombie worm
• The Antarctic scale worm
• Tully monster
• Aniktozoon
• The sarcastic fringehead
• estrildid finches as babys

Disturbing/scary facts

• Only 3% of cheetah cubs survive to adulthood
• Some albatrosses are lesbians
• Duck-billed platypus don't have nipples
• The shoebill stork can swallow baby crocodiles whole
• Vampire bats share blood with their friends
• Wojtek the bear was a corporal in the polish military during WWII
• Capuchin monkeys wash their hands and feet in urine
• During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs
• a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
• Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches
• The very first bomb that the Allies dropped on Berlin in World War Two hit an elephant
• George Washington's teeth were made of elephant ivory, and walrus tusks
• The phrase "raining cats and dogs" originated in seventeenth-century England
• Hyena's childhood
• Musth in elephants
• adelie penguin breeding behavior
• Armored bush cricket
• Travis the chimpanzee
• Fake animal rescue videos
• Damascus goat
• Animal abuse

Other versions

Other charts from r/IcebergCharts grouped under this topic, ordered by score:

• the animal iceberg (V3) by u/FeeIcy9908, 14 September 2022 (251 upvotes)
• The Animal iceberg (V4, probably) by u/FeeIcy9908, 20 September 2022 (242 upvotes)
• Animal Iceberg by u/MagicalToaster15, 29 November 2022 (239 upvotes)
• the animal iceberg V2 (now with 450+ entrys) by u/FeeIcy9908, 28 August 2022 (238 upvotes)
• Animal Iceberg 2.0 by u/MagicalToaster15, 19 December 2022 (151 upvotes)
• The Animal iceberg (completed) by u/FeeIcy9908, 14 February 2023 (135 upvotes)
• The Animal iceberg (Updated version with 800 entries) by u/FeeIcy9908, 13 June 2023 (89 upvotes)
• (Probably) Final Update to Animal Iceberg by u/MagicalToaster15, 16 January 2023 (65 upvotes)
• The animal iceberg (V6) Halloween edition by u/FeeIcy9908, 23 October 2022 (33 upvotes)
• the animal iceberg version l don't know by u/FeeIcy9908, 20 August 2022 (32 upvotes)
• The ultimate animals iceberg 700 different entries by u/Significant-Elk4642, 20 August 2026 (1 upvote)
• Giant Animals Iceberg by u/CNMJacob18, 5 February 2024 (1 upvote)

See also

• Iceberg chart
• R/IcebergCharts

Source

• Original post: u/FeeIcy9908. the ULTIMATE animal iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 22 July 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2026.