Thursday, 11 April 2013

I ❤ Niumbaha Superba

There's a new genus of bat in town that appears to be striped like a badger. While conducting field research in South Sudan the team found this strange bat by accident on the Bangangai Game Reserve. Once back in America the team found that it was the same bat that had been found in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1939, and had been named under the genus Glauconycteris Superba . After some research they found that this particular bat did not fit into the genus. After hitting a dead end, the team had no other choice than to name a completely new genus of bat. This new genus has now been named Niumbaha Superba.

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