Because look at it. Just. Look at it. Those lovable inky eyes. Those comically proportioned (yet somehow still adorable) legs. It's hard to imagine it could it be anything BUT an enchanted critter from a mystical woodland. But it is. It's a short-eared elephant shrew, recently born at the National Zoo in D.C., and it…

This little fellow is a sengi, or giant elephant shrew, but his particular species has never been seen before. Photographed in eastern Kenya, this newly discovered creature is one of perhaps many undiscovered species hiding in Kenya's remote coastal forests.