Animals that start with U
13 animals, sorted from the ones everyone says first to the ones almost nobody thinks of. 3 of them are in the Rare tier or rarer.
- 0 Plankton
- 4 Too Clever
- 6 Schooler
- 3 Rare
- 0 Deep Cut
- 0 One in a Krillion
Rare but real
Names that are easy to defend and hard to guess. Good when you need an answer no one else will have.
- Underwing
- Moth having dull forewings and brightly colored hind wings.
- Urutu
- Venomous pit viper of South America.
- Uintathere
- A variety of dinocerate.
- Unicornfish
- Surgeonfish of Indo-Pacific reefs, many species with a horn-like projection on the forehead.
- Upland sandpiper
- Large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands.
- Unau
- Relatively small fast-moving sloth with two long claws on each front foot.
All 13 animals that start with U
Sorted by search interest, most familiar first. The last column is average monthly US Google searches.
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| Name | What it is | Group | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| also Superslasher | Large (20-ft) and swift carnivorous dinosaur having an upright slashing claw 15 inches long on each hind foot. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Aurochs | Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox. | Mammals | Too Clever | 50K |
| Spiny-tailed lizard of deserts in North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 27K | |
| Black tropical American bird having a large overhanging crest and long feathered wattle. | Birds | Too Clever | 15K | |
| Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin. | Mammals | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia. | Mammals | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| Large grey-brown owl of northern Eurasian forests. | Birds | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| also Two-toed sloth, Unai | Relatively small fast-moving sloth with two long claws on each front foot. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.9K |
| Surgeonfish of Indo-Pacific reefs, many species with a horn-like projection on the forehead. | Fish | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| also Upland plover, Bartramian sandpiper | Large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands. | Birds | Schooler | 1.9K |
| Moth having dull forewings and brightly colored hind wings. | Insects | Rare | 390 | |
| Venomous pit viper of South America. | Reptiles | Rare | 390 | |
| also Dinoceras | A variety of dinocerate. | Mammals | Rare | 110 |
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Questions about animals that start with U
How many animals start with U?
RareList lists 13 animals that start with U. 0 are in the Plankton tier, the names everyone knows, and 3 are in the Rare tier or rarer.
What are common animals that start with U?
The most searched animals starting with U are Utahraptor, Urus, Uromastyx, Umbrella bird and Uakari.
What is a rare animal that starts with U?
Uintathere is one of the rarest. A variety of dinocerate. It gets about 110 US searches a month. Other rare picks: Underwing, Urutu and Unicornfish.
How does RareList decide what counts as rare?
Each name is ranked by its average monthly Google searches in the United States. Fewer searches means fewer people are likely to think of it, which is what matters in games that reward unique answers. See how we rank for the details.