13 most impressive new species of creatures in 2013

Every year, scientists have added to the life catalog on Earth: discovering and describing species that have never been known to exist on Earth.

Some species, as if imagined, have been found in the lesser-known areas of tropical forests, but some are found right in the city, sheltering in them. We see easily. Some species with close relatives were missed, while others were too small or in a position so remote that they simply escaped the attention of scientists.

From orchids to chocolate-colored frogs, to ants that look like eyepatches, Livescience magazine summarized 13 of the sexiest new species announced in 2013.

A rare orchid species

Orchid species can be found everywhere from flower shops and grocery stores, but a new species of orchid was discovered at the top of a volcano at the Azores, an archipelago of the coast. of Portugal. This species, the Hochstetter butterfly orchid (scientific name Platanthera azorica) was actually collected 170 years ago, but has never been studied or identified as a new species until the scientists Rediscover this species. The flower is probably Europe's rarest orchid, according to Richar Bateman, a botanist at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens plant research center in London, and needs an urgent conservation program, when this species is threatened with extinction by invasive species and habitat destruction.

Species 'ghost' shrimp

This creature looks like it came out of Tim Burton's film, but the skeleton shrimp (not really shrimp, but these tiny little corpses of the family caprellid amphipods) , are real. We stayed in a small cave under the sea of ​​Catalina Island of Southern California, although they were discovered in a museum that preserved this specimen. In a visit in 2010, their expert capricorn José Manuel Guerra - García of Seville University in Spain recognized that this species has never been described and described. Scientific named Liropus minusculus, these creatures are bone shrimp (skeleton shrimp) that have been discovered in the North Pacific waters.

Little scorpion

This scorpion species may look scary, but it is tiny - only a few centimeters long - meaning less threat to humans. Its injection only acts as a mosquito bite, scientists who have described the scorpion in Turkey.

A wooden scorpion , this new species was named Euscorpius lycius and added to the number of more than 1.7,000 science-described scorpion species.

Velvet worms spray glue

Glad that you are not a bug in Vietnam's jungle. If you are a bug, you may have to run away from this horrible predator. An example of a creature called this velvet worm, this 2.5-inch-long creature (about 6cm), attacks its victims by shooting out a glue-like substance from the appendages. its. This gel immobilizes the targeted animal, after the worm injects saliva and swallowed it. Velvet worms, a group that is difficult to detect because they often reside in soil and other difficult-to-find places, may be more diverse than we once thought, researchers discovered this new species for know.

Creatures have been threatened with genocide

A really interesting finding, a very lovely species of dwarf lemur , like all other lemurs, is an indigenous species of an island with remarkable biodiversity. amazing in Madagascar, in the east coast of Africa. This small primate escapes attention because of its way of life: Eating at night, spending most of its time sheltering on the canopy of leaves, and may have stages of this animal hibernating and hiding within a the cave. This animal (Cheirogaleuss lavasoensis) was discovered when researchers were collecting tissue samples from another lemur species and discovered that they discovered an animal that has never been described. This ape has been faced with a threat of genocide, leaving less than 50 individuals left in the wild.

Ancient house

This is not the chocolate frog you have to find in Harry Potter's hidden candy. Cocoa frog, named after its chocolate-colored skin color, is one of 60 species - all potentially new to science - found in the southeastern jungle of Suriname. A researcher called the area the oldest ecosystem they have ever observed, and this frog is one of six new frog species discovered in the area.

The fins are used for walking

'Walking' sharks have such a name because of the way pectoral and pelvic fins appear to cling to the ocean floor as they swim. A new species of creature from Indonesia, Hemiscyllium Halmahera, has been described in 2013 as not excluded. The shark, found in a coral reef in the Indonesian island of Halmahera, is 27 inches (70cm) long and is harmless to humans, the researchers said.

'The world disappears'

In March, an expedition was supported by National Geographic to an area in northeastern Australia, where a number of adventurers discovered a few new species of science, including species. camouflaged leaf-tail gecko . This gecko species (scientific name is Saltuarius eximius) matures 8 inches (20cm) long and has incredible camouflage abilities, it is used to immerse yourself in the rock lying on the prey. This species was discovered in the Cape Melville Range rainforest on the Cape York Peninsula, described by adventurers as something of a 'disappearing world'.

Hide yourself in front of you

Despite the fact that this species was in American museum collections and zoo residences at many times in the last century, the oliguito animal was not identified as a great species. strains until 2013. The oliguito species (Bassaricyon neblia ) is similar to the olingos family which is named 'monkey cat' because they are very similar to cats with a very long tail. An attempt to categorize olingos by observing the skull of this species shows that some skulls are much smaller and have different shapes and records from the early 20th century suggest that this animal appears. at a much higher altitude than the region commonly known as the residence of olingos. The researchers searched for living samples of the species and found them in the cloudy cloud cover of the western mountains of the Andes.

Birds in the city

One species was discovered right before the eyes of researchers, the Cambodian sewing bird (Orthotomus Chaktomuk) , discovered dense living in and around shrubs in the capital Phnom Penh, the capital of 1.5 million. Cambodian people. The bird is about the size of a wolver and has a red crested hat, gray olive wings, a black throat and a noticeable loud voice.

Octocoral octopus coral

In a tidal area in San Diego and at 40 feet (12 m) below sea level off British Columbia, scientists discovered two new octopus corals, named so because They have 8 tentacles around the mouth. Both are soft corals, soft corals account for about two-thirds of corals worldwide. The coral at San Diego is named Cryptophyton jedsmithi - its name means 'hiding creature' , suitable for an animal that looks like a thin brown film. The other coral (Gersemia lamb) has pale pink polyps with an orange center that makes it look like a flower, according to one of the scientists who described it.

Ants pirates

Scientists flipped stones in a forest in the Philippines when they found an ant with an unusual trait: a black stripe on its eyes that looked like an eye patch. They call this ant species a pirate ant . Scientists are unclear about the purpose of the black on the eyes of this species, but people speculate it might be to distract the enemy.

New species of owl on Indonesia's island

Two members of an expedition on Indonesia's Lombok Island heard a cry of an owl, and they realized that this was the cry of a new owl. This owl has long been ignored and thought to be the same species as other owls. After being discovered at the feet of Rinjani Mountain, the scientists named it Otus jolandae.