GCIS Bimonthly | Page 14

Move over, blobfish. This new species of anglerfish from the Gulf of Mexico has an unusual projection on its head and just might snag the title for world’s ugliest ocean animal. This African damselfly is just one of 60 new dragonfly and damselfly species recently reported. According to a study of giant tortoises in Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands, there are only about 250 eastern Santa Cruz tortoises—a newly named species of reptile. - 14 -