What you're describing is likely a comet. Comets are icy celestial bodies that, when they approach the Sun, heat up and release gas and dust, creating a glowing coma and often a tail that points away from the Sun. This tail can give the appearance of a star with a tail as it moves across the night sky. Occasionally, meteors can also create a similar effect when they enter Earth’s atmosphere, producing bright streaks of light known as "shooting stars."
The hawk moth caterpillar has a defense mechanism where its tail looks like a snake's head, which can confuse predators and deter them from attacking. This mimicry helps the caterpillar avoid being eaten.
A comet appears like a star with a tail due to its glowing nucleus and the long, trailing coma formed when it approaches the Sun. As the comet gets closer, solar radiation and solar wind cause the ice and dust in the nucleus to vaporize and release gas and particles, creating a bright cloud (coma) around the nucleus and a tail that points away from the Sun. This tail is a result of the solar wind pushing the released materials, giving the comet its distinctive appearance.
A star with a tail is called a comet. Comets are icy bodies in our solar system that release gas and dust as they approach the Sun, creating a glowing tail that points away from the Sun due to solar radiation and solar wind.
people can easily tell because of the tail its the longest tail out of a shooting star and a meteor
A comet, shooting star, asteroid meteorite?
There is an animal that looks like a beaver but the tail is more like a rat tail and it is called a Nutria.
It looks like the tail of a Dove.
A chinchilla kind of looks like it.
it looks like a horses tail, obviously.
Tigger looks like a tiger with a stripped tail of a kangaroo.
Flagellum
It looks like a frog with a tail
A wild cat looks like a house cat but has white tip tail.
it looks like a tadpole with a tail
Looks like the tail of a well-groomed pony.
A gibbon looks like a money and has long arms and no tail.