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Free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Contents Flashback: New discoveries 044 Mammals 046 Birds 052 Reptiles & amphibians 054 Fishes 056 Crustaceans 058 Insects & arachnids 060 Mostly molluscs 062 Pets 064 Animals in action 066 00 068 A whale shark egg - the largest of all fish eggs - is typically the same size as an American football! www.guinnessworldrecords.com 043
Free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com New d1scovenes It is a tragic but inescapable fact that animal species are becoming extinct all the time - in many cases, as a direct result of human activity. Happily, it is also true that even today a surprising number of previously unknown, entirely new animal species are coming to light: 15,000 each year, on average. Many of the new species being discovered are small, inconspicuous creatures: mostly insects, worms and other diminutive invertebrates. But quite a few much more sizeable and very spectacular animals are also being uncovered, and on a global scale, not just in a few specific locations. To demonstrate this heartening and ongoing revelation of previously unknown life forms, our expert Dr Karl Shuker highlights some of the most notable new animal species that have come to light over the past six decades. All of these creatures have been found, formally described and classified by scientists since the first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published in 1955, and every one is a GWR record holder. At the bottom of these pages we present 10 of the most recent, and most remarkable, animal finds. Encouragingly, the evidence on these pages suggests that there are still plenty of new species waiting to be discovered! 1970s: In 1977, scientists on board US research submarine Alvin discovered an astonishing new ecosystem thriving around hydrothermal vents on the seafloor off the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Among the fauna were new species such as the giant tube worm (Riftia pachyptila), with huge, red, plume-like tentacles. It was the first known ecosystem not to derive its primary energy from sunlight, which can't penetrate down to it, but from chemical energy instead, released by bacteria. I 1950s: The year 1955 saw the discovery of the most venomous jellyfish, Flecker's sea-wasp (Chironex fleckeri), 1 which is found in the waters off Queensland, Australia. Shown inset are sting wounds inflicted on the leg of a swimmer in Jan 2000. TEN OF THE MOST RECENT ARRIVALS. NEWEST ••• - 2013 Botsford's leaf-litter frog (Leptolalax botsford/) was formally described and classified in late 2013. It was discovered in the high elevations of Vietnam's Mount Fansipan, the tallest mountain in Indochina. 2010 The northern buff-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus annamensis) is native to the tropical rainforests between Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. It is distinguished from similar-looking species by its characteristic vocalizations. 2010 Formally described and named in 2010, the Socotra buzzard (Buteo socotraensis) is native exclusively to the Socotra archipelago, a group of tiny islands forming part of Yemen in the Arabian peninsula. 2013 The selkirk rex is also known as the poodle cat because of its thick, curly fur, composed of three separate layers. The breed was developed from a spontaneous genetic mutation originating in Montana, USA, in 1987. 2014 lnia araguaiaensis, the Araguaian boto, was officially described and named in Jan 2014. It is a species of freshwater dolphin native to the Araguaia River basin of Brazil, and is the first such discovery for almost a century. 044 Living planet
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