Friday, December 31, 2010

What's new?

New species discovered in 2010 From invisible squids to bald parrots to deep-sea fish with teeth on their tongues, guardian.co.uk picks the best of of 2010's newly discovered animals. This image provided by NOAA shows a deep-sea chimaera. Chimaeras are most closely related to sharks, although their evolutionary lineage branched off from sharks nearly 400m years ago, and they have remained an isolated group ever since.

2 comments:

Doris Sturm said...

I've never heard of such a creature - it doesn't even look real....WOW!

Julie said...

I know! cool though.