71. Peacock Spider
Not hard to see where the Peacock Spider gets its name. As a mating dance, they show a pretty display on their abdomen as they dance back and forth waving a pair of their hind legs. Males have to be especially careful though, because the females they're trying to woo will most certainly turn and try to eat them.
As a Pokemon: A Bug/Psychic spider that has a hypnotic pattern on its behind, or even a huge intimidating eye-display with hypnotic eye marks that looks a bit like a mask.
72. Pelican Spider
That's a spider with a funky face! Pelican Spiders are almost specifically built to prey on other spiders, with an elongated “neck” and even longer, tong-like fangs allowing it to bite them from a much safer distance.
As a Pokemon: One idea that I've had that wouldn't need to be tied to any particular spider is one where they make webbing that acts as wings between their legs. While that idea could arguably work better for a net-casting spider, the pelican spider's bird-like appearance would make this idea really suit it as well.
73. Skeleton Shrimp
Another animal that is called shrimp but is not actually a shrimp. (Less surprisingly, also not a skeleton.) Also another animal that looks like an intimidating hunter, but is actually only a few centimeters long and mostly feeds on copepods and algae. Also amusingly, when a female first births its children, dozens of said children will literally cling to mom until they're big enough to live on their own.
As a Pokemon: Their bodies look a bit like a skeletal arm, complete with “hand” on the bottom, making them a good Water/Ghost type. For an evolution, possibly a female-only one, it becomes an extra large skeleton shrimp using its own children as arms.
74. Streaked Tenrec
These odd little mammals look a lot like a bee-colored hedgehog, but are actually in their own Order along with golden moles and otter-shrews. They have special spines on their back that they rub together to create a sound so high-pitched, you'd need special equipment to hear it.
As a Pokemon: I mean, look at it. It's practically already an Electric type. You could make it sound-themed where it makes a lot of high-pitched sounds by rolling or vibrating. You could even make it Electric/Poison, since it's also notorious for carrying the bubonic plague.
75. “Zombie” Snail
This isn't one particular species, so much as it's a particular phenomenon that happens when a certain parasite enters the body of a snail. These worms get eaten by snails, but then the worms will make their way into the snail's head and will basically take over its brain, forcing it to move out in the open as opposed to hiding away in safe places. The worms also pulsate inside the snail's eye stalks, making the snail look especially appealing for birds to eat. This is because the bird's stomach is apparently ideal for the reproduction of these worms. The bird then defecates the worm eggs, which a new snail then eats, thus starting the cycle over again.
As a Pokemon: A snail Pokemon that starts out as a regular snail, but then eventually becomes a Bug/Psychic type with huge, pulsating hypnotic eyes would be rad on its own. The concept of a worm that not only mind-controls the snail it's a parasite to, but also anything that gazes upon its weird pulsing eyes would be right terrifying.
76. Sundew
We have a pitcher plant and a venus flytrap, so to complete a carnivorous plant trifecta, we just need a sundew Pokemon! Sundews are plants that secrete a sticky substance that looks a lot like morning dew to attract insects. When insects touch their sticky leaves, they get stuck and begin to struggle, which causes the plant to react by contracting and wrapping itself around the insect, trapping it even further. Eventually, the insect is digested and the sundew unfurls for the next meal.
As a Pokemon: Any plant-like creature with sundew leaves for arms would be cool, but you could also take it a step further by giving it an octopus-like look to give it as many arms as possible.
77. Aristolochia
These flowers have a particular pollination method. They attract insects that like dead and deteriorating plants by looking like one, (this species in particular seemingly mimicking the appearance of meat to attract flies that'll lay eggs on food) and attracting these insects to come and explore its cavernous “throat”. It has hairs that'll trap the bugs in said throat, as they then eventually come across its pollen, which the insects then eat a bit of and discover it's actually sweet-tasting. The Aristolochia then relaxes its hairs to allow the insect to escape, as it'll then seek out more of the flower to get more of that tasty pollen.
As a Pokemon: A plant monster wearing a big exaggerated trench coat, from which it unleashes swarms of flies would be really funny by concept alone. It would be Mono-Grass or Grass/Dark, but has access to tons of Bug moves thanks to having so many just on hand.
78. Guarana
They look like regular fruit at first, but when they open, they look like a peering eyeball! By the time a bunch of them have opened, it looks like a spooky eyeball soup you'd see at a Halloween dinner party.
As a Pokemon: There are so many cool angles to take a guarana Pokemon. An unnerving cyclops? A seemingly cute plant creature who just has impossible to ignore fruits dangling from its head that look like dead, staring eyes? Make the fruit itself the body while a kinda-cute, kinda-terrifying face lies within? The possibilities are endless!
79. Wildebeast
We've got a buffalo, a couple cows, and several sheep/goat Pokemon at this point. A glaring absence in bovine inspiration is the Wildebeast. They're part of one of the biggest regular animal migrations, where they travel up and down the southern ends of Africa depending on the season.
As a Pokemon: A Fire/Ground or Fire/Rock type that is offensively focused and headbutt each other to create a flint of fire would be neat. In battle, it could be given a special variation of Flame Body, where it'll Burn opponents that strike it with a Rock move.
80. Titan Arum
Otherwise known as a “Corpse Flower”, so you can probably imagine what it smells like. And as usual with flowers, that means it attracts meat-loving insects with this odor to trick them into pollinating for them. The big difference with this one being that it's FRIGGIN HUGE. Like, taller than a person kinda huge.
As a Pokemon: It could easily work as a new alternate evolution for Gloom, but overall a Grass/Poison type with a tall fancy hat and looks nice but is actually repugnant in odor would just in general be neat.
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