Three of the most unusual animals found in 2013

Lizard-Pinocchio
Experts long could not find in the tropical forests of Ecuador, a lizard with a nose like Pinocchio, despite the many witnesses of the existence of such. In addition, the animal is considered extinct, since more than 15 years no one saw him.




Bright pink snail

He's a big, slippery and poisonous pink. I want you to meet Triboniophorus, twenty centimeters slug, which really took a long time for a close relative of green. Experts thought that this one kind of variable coloring, but it was different. Now geneticists are actively working to study, which can be seen only on the mountain Kaputar.




Olegito

A cute carnivorous mammal of the raccoon that lives in the forests of Colombia and Ecuador, caught the eye of researchers in August 2013. It's pretty rare: sometimes the experts stumble upon new species of shellfish or insects, but items of new predators in biological dictionaries are not a very long time.

With the animals that made history last year, You can find here.

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