Ten Weirdest New Animals of 2010: Editors' PicksThe up-to-three-inch-long (about seven-centimeter-long) leech has large teeth, like its dinosaur namesake Tyrannosaurus rex
Squid? Worm? Initially, this new species—with bristle-based "paddles" for swimming and tentacles on its head—so perplexed Census of Marine Life researchers that they threw in the towel and simply called it squidworm, National Geographic News reported in November.
A new purple octopus,a tube-nosed fruit bat,long-tailed slug is found that shoots its mate with "love darts" made of calcium carbonate and spiked with hormoneshence its nickname: ninja slug.
A new monkey species in Myanmar is so snub-nosed that rainfall is said to makes it sneeze
A new species of armored, wood-eating catfish (pictured underwater) found in the Amazon rain forest feeds on a fallen tree in the Santa Ana River in Peru in 2006
the newfound Leiolepis ngovantrii is no run-of-the-mill reptile—the all-female species reproduces via cloning, without the need for male lizards.
Using its fins to walk, rather than swim, along the ocean floor in an undated picture, the pink handfish is one of nine newly named species described in a scientific review of the handfish family released in May.
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