5 Rarest Animal Species On The Earth.

FRUIT BAT

This fruit bat with a tube-shaped nose, which became an online sensation, is just one of the approximately 200 species found during two scientific expeditions to Papua New Guinea in 2009.

PINK HANDFISH

He uses his fins to walk, rather than to swim, along the bottom of the ocean in this undated photo. The pink fish with hands is one of the nine recently named species described in a scientific review of the family of fish with hands.

PURPLE OCTOPUS

This unidentified purple octopus is one of the 11 new species found during a high-altitude expedition on the Atlantic coast of Canada in July 2010.

SQUID WORM

T first, this new species - with palettes in the shape of a paddle for swimming and tentacles in its head - left the researchers of the marine life census puzzled by what they deemed impossible and decided to call it the squid worm.

NINJA SNAIL

Boasting a tail three times longer than its head, this new species of long tail snail was found in the mountains of Malaysia, in the Borneo area.