5 exceptionally strange animals only discovered in the last 10 years

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In 2011, an international study suggested that the world contained around 8.7 million animal species, and that 86% of those “still await description”. In the intervening years that number has fallen a little, thanks to a litany of discoveries ranging from acrobatic arachnids to an almost invisibly small frog…

Here are our top five favourite critters that science has turned up over the last decade, from South American jungle to the sands of the Sahara…