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          Cartwheeling Spider, Colorful Sea Slug Among Top New Species

   by VOA News

   The Top Ten Species list is compiled annually by the International
   Institute for Species Exploration, or IISE. It calls attention to
   discoveries that are made even as species are going extinct faster than
   they are identified.

   From among the 18,000 new species named last year, a committee of
   taxonomists chose the ones that made the 2015 list. They include a
   bird-like dinosaur, dubbed the "chicken from Hell," that was 3.5 meters
   from beak to tail and weighed as much as 300 kilograms; a spider that
   lives in the Moroccan desert and can use its gymnastic talents to
   cartwheel out of danger; a 23-centimeter-long walking stick common in
   Vietnam; and a colorful sea slug from the Japanese islands that is the
   missing link between slugs that feed on colonies of tiny stinging
   jellies and those specializing on corals.

   Scientists believe 10 million species still await discovery, five times
   the number that are already known to science.

   IISE founding director Quentin Wheeler said the Top Ten Species list "
   is a reminder of the wonders awaiting us."

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