Ten most bizarre neighbors

Everyone knows that with each decade getting smaller species of living beings on earth. But sometimes there are pleasant moments in the life of scientists. Discover new kinds of creatures. Your attention is given some of the most curious specimens, recently discovered. I wonder where they could have hidden dinosaurs.
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1. The length of the smallest snake in the world, Leptotyphlops carlae, only 104 mm, and she lives in Barbados.





... Here's her photo



Palma Tahina spectablilis, found in northwestern Madagascar, presented less than 100 copies. In essence, this plant is a suicide. After fruiting, it dies and collapses. Now all over the world raising money for the conservation of this rare species.



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Even less mikrozmeyki tiny seahorse, living far away from Kalimantan. Hippocampus satomiae size of less than 1, 5 cm in its name shall instructor Satomi Onishi, under whose leadership the dive to collect samples



Quite different scale from giant insect from Borneo. Phobaeticus chani, like stick insects, grows to the size of cats - 56, 7 cm.



Insect very much like stick insects, but no more.



There are less exotic countries. For example, in Cardiff, the capital of densely populated areas of Wales, have found a new kind of slug that was mystical name Selenochlamys ysbryda, or ghost slug. So look at your backyard, and you can find something interesting.



The closest relative of the slug - snail - are also able to surprise scientists. The sink her body twists around four axes. Opisthostoma vermiculum lives only in the limestone hills in Malaysia. Seemingly not. Similar to the parasite



For the first time in Central Africa, in Cameroon, found a coffee tree beans which does not have caffeine. Coffea charrieriana named in memory of Professor Andre Charrere, which for 30 years engaged in the selection and breeding new varieties of coffee trees.



Beautiful fish Chromis abyssus was listed almost by accident - because it made its first new taxonomic database Zoobank, as a result of an article about it was the most readable.



I honestly do not understand that it remarkable. But let there be



But this fish is interesting. The truth is she died and therefore not quite in the topic. But, in my opinion, you can not go past the live-bearing fish. Its fossilized specimen discovered John Long. Praryba lived 380 million years ago. Isledovatel named her Josie, so call his mother.

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