What animals were discovered in 2010?
Top 10 New Species of 2010
- Bioluminescent Mushroom. (Image credit: Cassius V.
- Darwin’s Bark Spider. (Image credit: Matjaž Kuntner (Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts))
- Titanic bacterium.
- H.
- Monitor Lizard.
- Golden Spotted Monitor.
- Pollinating Cricket.
- Pollinating Cricket.
What new species have been discovered in the last 10 years?
8 Incredible Animals Discovered In The Last Decade
- The Purple Crab, 201.
- Micro Chameleon, 2012.
- The Staten Island Frog, 2011.
- The Garuda Wasp, 2011.
- The Tube-nosed Bat, 2009.
- The Matilda Viper, 2010.
- The African Dwarf Sawshark, 2011.
- The Psychedelic Gecko, 2011.
What animal was discovered in 2011?
The African dwarf sawshark (Pristiophorus nancyae) was accidentally captured in a 1,600-foot-deep (490-meter-deep) trawl off Mozambique. The animal is only the seventh species of sawshark known to science, according to David Ebert, a research associate at the Academy.
How many new species have been discovered 2020?
This year, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences have described 213 new species in scientific journals: “101 ants, 22 crickets, 15 fishes, 11 geckos, 11 sea slugs, 11 flowering plants, eight beetles, eight fossil echinoderms, seven spiders, five snakes, two skinks, two aphids, two eels, one moss, one frog.
What is the latest animal to go extinct?
Recently Extinct Animals
- Splendid Poison Frog. Estimated extinction date: 2020.
- Spix’s Macaw. Estimated extinction date: …
- Northern White Rhinoceros. Estimated extinction date: 2018.
- Baiji. Estimated extinction date: 2017.
- Pyrenean Ibex. Estimated extinction date: 2000.
- Western Black Rhinoceros.
- Passenger Pigeon.
- The Quagga.