Look! New things to kill!

I am become Ghost Slug, Destroyer of Wales

Last week the International Institute for Species Exploration released a list of over 18,000 new species discovered in 2007, the most recent year for which data was available.

"Most people do not realize just how incomplete our knowledge of Earth's species is," Quentin Wheeler, an entomologist and director of the International Institute of Species Exploration (IISE) at Arizona State University in Tempe, said in a statement. "We are surrounded by such an exuberance of species diversity that we too often take it for granted," he continued.

Scientific American is running photos and descriptions of their top 10, including Selenochlamys ysbryda (pictured above), a white slug native to Wales that uses rows of long, bladelike teeth to devour earthworms. That's right -- we're wiping out hippos and lions like there's a fucking prize at the finish but we haven't found a way to eradicate carnivorous Welsh snails.

This world makes no sense.