#11: Taz
Raise your hand if you were guilty of this when you were younger! I know I was. I’d watch the Tasmanian Devil on Looney Tunes and thought that surely this has to have been made-up for the cartoons. An animal that walks on its hind legs and spins around in a cyclone surely could not have a real-world equivalent.
And to be fair, I was mostly right. The real-life Tasmanian devil bears very little resemblance to its cartoon counterpart; it looks mostly like an oversized rat. Although it is apparently a marsupial, it’s not angry and loud, and—try not to be too shocked—it doesn’t travel via tornado.