Vampire fish, they are not big, and they are not pretty, but this small fish with the scientific name "Danionella dracula" is very peculiar. With vampire-like fangs on its upper and lower jaws, this small fish, which is only one of more than 3,700 species of carp, has fangs, and the large teeth of the male come in handy when fighting for territory.
If you're stunned by the 13-meter-long, 1-ton python fossil discovered earlier this year, you'll be even more captivated by a new species of snake discovered in 2008, a small snake called "Leptotyphlops carlae," which is only 10 centimeters long and less than spaghetti, and is the smallest snake in the world today, curled up on an English penny coin or a cent coin.
It is a very peculiar marine creature, its scientific name is "Histiophryne psychedelica", and people usually refer to it as "Psychedelica". A year ago, when a diver was diving in the waters below 30 feet offshore the Indonesian island of Ambon, he accidentally photographed this shallow water fish, which the diver is said to have never seen in more than 20 years of diving.
This millipede has a pink body and a smell of almonds, scientifically known as "Mangkorn chomphoo". In 2007, scientists discovered this strange millipede in central Thailand, its slender, prickly protrusions that slowly release hydrocyanide to block predators, so they are also named "pink cyanide millipedes".
The Udezanwa Mountains in central Tanzania are one of the world's hotspots for biodiversity, with the discovery of a variety of new species in the past few decades. In 2008, scientists discovered a giant elephant shrew here, but it is not a shrew, and its close relatives include elephants, hoofed rabbits, aardvarks and manatees.
In 2006, a mysterious species was discovered in a garden on the outskirts of Wales, England, and witnesses said it looked like an alien creature, all white, like a ghost carnivorous slug. It wasn't until 2008 that the slug was named "Selenochlamys ysbryda" and identified as a new species.
Borneo flathead frog. It was first discovered in 1978 in Borneo, Indonesia, but it took 30 years to truly identify it. Scientists eventually determined that it was a frog without lungs.