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Joel Kontinen
According to evolution species live for a short time and and them die out, but finding new species turns out to be great,
A New Scientist article speaks about bats. that are the” most charismatic species out there,” says Bryan Carstens an evolutionary biologist at The Ohio State University in Columbus. Here is an animal that evolved from the same ancestor as we did and yet most species now fly around, hunting down insects in the dark by shouting at them and listening for echoes. They live for decades, longer than other mammals their size, and they are extremely social."
Carstens and his colleagues have discovered 600 new bat species. ,
Douglas,
Kate. 2022. Why masses of new species have
been staring us in the face all along New Scientist
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