Strangest Animal Found!

Every year, wading into forests and deserts, leads to the discovery of some new species. For instance, a ruby-red sea dragon off the Australian coast has been identified in the year 2015 along with a giant tortoise in the Galápagos Islands and an ancient spikey worm with 30 legs in China. Covering them from Earth's pollution, habitat loss, havoc caused by invasive species is the important part as they are really uncovered and is necessary as earth enters its sixth mass extinction. Now, scientists are busy finding about these new animals that whether these critters can help new materials and medicines. Let’s have a account of some newly identified ─ and exceptionally weird animals including the one living and the one who got extinct.

1. Sneezing monkeys
Sneezing monkey is nicknamed "snubby" for its upturned nose that gathers rainwater on wet days. The extraordinary white - and-black monkey used to be found in northern Myanmar, and can be heard all around Sneezing off its 'nose puddles' during rain. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) The animal has a trick up its nose. It often tucks its head between its knees sometimes during rains, so it won't spend all its time sneezing. Scientists also announced the sneezing monkey (Rhinopithecus) in 2010, to the world. But according to a new 2015 WWF report, it has been found as one of 211 new species discovered in the eastern Himalayas between 2009 and 2014.
2. Smallest snail on Earth
The tiny snail in Borneo edged out a species in China titled as world’s smallest snail. They have a shiny, translucent white shell that measures about 0.027 inches tall, living on limestone hills of the tropical island. The recently identified snail, considered as the world's smallest snail ever, similarly like the font used in the journal Zoo Keys. The pipsqueak is so small that scientists couldn't see it with naked eyes in the wild. So they took a scoop of dirt from the tropical rainforest and verified the contents under a microscope. A. nana likely feeds on films of bacteria and fungi that grow on wet limestone. The researchers identified in the study that the tiny mollusk is one of 48 snail species
3. Terror Bird.
Making you terrified with a 10-foot-tall flightless bird, can chase prey with its hooked beak. living in South America from about 50 million to 1.8 million years ago, and likely named as terror birds. In April, an announcement is made by the researchers giving account of a new species of terror bird off the eastern coast of Argentina. The 3.5-million-year-old specimen is the most packed terror bird fossil on record, with 90 % of its bones intact. An analysis is made and it's inner ear structures suggests L. scagliai heard low-frequency sounds, conveying it could hear the low rumble of its prey's footsteps hitting the ground from a far distance also.
4. Dementor Wasp
A newfound wasp Ampulex was named as dementor, or "dementors wasp". The name was inspired by Harry Potter's dementors, ghost like creatures who have tendency to suck away a person's happy thoughts. This wasp eats cockroaches in a horrible manner. It injects venom into the cockroach'sbelly,as a "passive zombie,". But the venom doesn’t kill it, meaning the cockroach gets eaten alive by the wasp.
5. Enormous sea scorpion
In an excavation of an ancient meteorite impact crater in the Upper Iowa River, it has been uncovered that the fossilized remains of human-size sea scorpions with both pointy and paddle-shaped limbs. The sea scorpions (Pentecopterus decorahensis) likely ate bivalves and squishy eel-like creatures during their day, about 460 million years ago, the researchers told Live Science in September. Decorahensis are ancient arthropods that are closely related to horseshoe crabs and arachnids, making it an incredibly ancient relative of Skeletorus and Sparkle muffin.

By: Saksham Gupta
Content: https://www.livescience.com/53155-strangest-animal-species-of-2015.html