all kidns of strange and wonderful beafts in the world. how do we even know them all. wh
That’s the beauty of it: we don’t know them all! We’re constantly discovering new species! Granted, some of these discoveries weren’t completely unknown to science and were only misidentified as a different animal, but they’re still pretty cool nonetheless. Here are some mammals that were discovered in the past few years:
The Popa langur (Trachypithecus popa), first described in 2020.
The northern greater glider (Petauroides minor) and the central greater glider (Petauroides armillatus), upgraded from subspecies of the southern greater glider (Petauroides volans), to their own species in 2020.
The Ramari’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon eueu), described from a single beached specimen in 2021!
The striking Halloween colored Nimba myotis bat (Myotis nimbaensis), described in 2021.
The southern maned sloth (Bradypus crinitus), first described in 2022.
The Benin tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax interfluvialis), first described in 2022.
The eastern Mindanao gymnure (Podogymnura intermedia) and the Kitanglad gymnure (podogymnura minima), first described this year, in January 2023.
And the Talpa hakkariensis mole, described just last month in August 2023!
