14 Pokémon Based On Bizarre Real Life Creatures

By Stevie Shephard / September 23, 2016

1. Psyduck Is A Platypus (Not A Duck)

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What Is It?

Yeah. Sozzles. Psyduck isn't a duck. With four webbed appendages and Water type designation, as opposed to flying, it's much closer to a duck billed platypus. The platypus is probably one of the oddest creatures in existence as a venemous, semi-aquatic, electrosensitive, egg-laying mammal. So much so that it was considered a hoax when it was first discovered.

Fun Fact:

Just in case it wasn't weird enough already, the platypus also doesn't have a stomach, despite the fact that, as far as we can tell, it is definitely evolutionarily descended from animals who did have them.