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Flying Spider-Kanga-Squirrels
Flying Spider-Kanga-Squirrels are large arachnid-marsupial hybrids that inhabit the minds of overly creative people and small children. Taking its features from commonly known spiders, kangaroos, and squirrels, the Flying Spider-Kanga-Squirrel has the ability to make its own silk like a spider, the strong legs of a kangaroo, and the body and bushy tail of a squirrel. When startled, these animals will leap from a tall tree branch and glide down to safety by using their natural wing-like flaps that inspired the modern day human wing-suit. Flying Spider-Kanga-Squirrels will also use this technique to hunt, oftentimes choosing to fling themselves down from branches to prey upon an unsupervised sandwich or bag of chips. There have even been reports that these creatures have directly leapt onto unsuspecting college students and overall have cost people hundreds of dollars in stolen food.

Flying Spider-Kanga-Squirrels were created by a freak accident at a PETA convention. When three enthusiastic pet owners met up for lunch at a local Starbucks near the convention center, a cup of Pumpkin Spice latte somehow ended up splashing on all three of the animals, fusing them together through a process that scientists have not yet disclosed to the public (also called The Star Bucks Spill of '05). This incident somehow also created an alternate dimension, which was breached on Groundhog Day in 2009 by the Green Goblin. While trying to banish Bill Murray into an alternate dimension via a high-tech transportation device, the Green Goblin miss-aimed his throw and his device ricocheted off three windows, two cats, and finally a barn door before accidentally turning on. The aforementioned impacts disrupted the device's wiring, which changed its destination from the world of Tron to Kalsar, the alternate dimension created by The Star Bucks Spill of '05. The new rift in the fabric of space-time is irreversible, which allowed the hundreds of thousand of Flying Spider-Kanga-Squirrels that once inhabited Kalsar to cross over into our world.

As of today, there are more than one million of these creatures living on the North American continent, though they are spreading throughout the rest of the world via people selling them overseas on Ebay in an attempt to get rid of the pests. Most Flying Spider-Kanga-Squirrels inhabit college and university campuses, where they thrive on the pity of college students and the naïve adoration of unsuspecting visitors. In response, North American higher education institutes have declared a national infestation crisis. Some universities such as Yale and the University of Texas have reallocated the scholarship funds set aside for basket-weaving majors towards efforts to try and help control the infestation. However, despite their best efforts, most campuses have found it impossible to remove the animals completely from their grounds.