Image courtesy of Jon Flanders, Bat Conservation International.
Joel Kontinen
According to
evolution, species tend to flourish for a some time and then die off. However,
at times even the dead come back to life.
The (Rhinolophus hilli),is the latest of these Lazarus animals The most famous of them is the Coelacanth.
In 2020, they found a
chameleon in Madagascar.
Reseaerchers had not seen the bat from 1981but it has made has made a comeback, Her is what Sience News tells us:
Julius Nziza still
remembers the moment vividly. Just before dawn on a chilly January morning in
2019, he and his team gently extracted a tiny brown bat from a net purposely
strung to catch the nocturnal fliers.
It was the horsehow bat.
Source:
Gibbs. Anna. 2022. How scientists found an African bat lost to science for 40 years Science News. 30 March.
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