The Serendipity in Us: AMAZING ANIMALS!

Hello beautiful people, today I bring you 9 species that are super strange and amazing and that I think would be worth exploring some time, don't you think? It would be great to be able to go on an excursion and discover a species and study and protect it.

The pink fish with hands

She uses her flippers to walk, rather than swim, along the ocean floor. The pinkfish with hands (Brachiopsilus dianthus) is one of the nine newly named species described in a scientific review of the family of fish with hands (Brachionichthyidae).

Only four specimens of this elusive 10-centimeter pink-handed fish have been found, and all in the area near Hobart Island, on the Australian island of Tasmania.
Lizard Leiolepis ngovantrii

It could be called the (surprise of the menu) of the day: a popular food in Vietnamese restaurants has turned out to be a lizard unknown to science. The newly discovered Leiolepis ngovantrii is not in danger of extinction, since the female reproduces by cloning and without the need for males.
The Simpsons Toad

While searching for lost amphibian species in western Colombia, in September 2010, scientists stumbled upon three new species, including this beaked toad (Rhinella). His long, pointed nose is reminiscent of that of the villain Mr. Burns, from the television series The Simpsons, according to expedition leader Robert Moore, amphibian conservation specialist for Conservation International.
The wood-eating fish

A new species of Panaque found in the Amazon feeds on a fallen tree in the Santa Ana river in Peru in 2006. Other species of loricariids (known as catfish or siluriforms) use their teeth to scratch organic matter from the surface of the wood. sunken. The new species, still unnamed, is among the dozen known Panaque species that digest wood.
The monkey without nose

The Burmese Nose Monkey or Flat-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri) has such a flat nose that the rain makes him sneeze, but apparently that is the least of his problems, conservationists commented in October 2010.

The only scientifically analyzed specimen had been killed by local hunters when investigators discovered it in 2010, and was eaten soon after. It was the hunters themselves who spoke about this species to a team of researchers from Flora & Fauna International (FFI), in 2010.
Borneo's Ninja Slug

Boasting a tail three times longer than its head, this new species of long-tailed slug was discovered in the mountains of Malaysia in the Borneo area.

This new spice launches its partner "love darts" composed of calcium carbonate and hormones, hence its name, the "ninja" slug. Scientists believe that this Cupid-like behavior can lead to increased reproductive success.
The purple octopus

This purple octopus was one of 11 new species found during a deep-sea expedition off the Atlantic coast of Canada in July 2010.

The 20-day expedition, in which Canadian and Spanish scientists collaborated, aimed to discover the relationship between cold water corals and other creatures on the seafloor in an environment yet to be studied. For this they used an ROV called ROPOS to dive into the coasts of Newfoundland with a maximum depth of 3,000 meters.
The T. rex leech

This new leech species was discovered in a remote area of the Peruvian Amazon and has been named Tyrannobdella rex. It can measure up to seven centimeters and has long teeth, like those of the dinosaur that gives it the name Tyrannosaurus rex.

What's more, "the bites of this new creature are relatively small," said study co-author Mark Siddall, an expert in invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. For this and more reasons, this leech species is among the "rarest species of 2010".
Squid worm

Is it a squid? Is it a worm? At first, this new species puzzled Census of Marine Life researchers, so much so that they threw in the towel and called it a squid worm. This ten-centimeter-long creature, discovered through a ROV 2,800 meters below the Celebes Sea in 2007, turned out to be a member of a new family of the Polychaeta class or polychaetes (annelids).