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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!
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an attempt to draw gliders + a piper from my local aerodrome in @/planeyboys (scared to @) art style, I love their plane drawings so muchhh
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Women at war: May Verity stacks a pile of “nose skins” in Mineola, October 17, 1943. They were made of mahogany plywood, 3/32 of an inch thick and formed the leading edge of a glider's wing.
Photo: Ed Ford for the AP
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A collection of possum species from my June 2023 roadtrip through NSW, the ACT and south-east Queensland
Krefft's Glider (Petaurus notatus) - Black Mountain Nature Reserve, ACT
Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) - Cotter Campground, ACT
Broad-toed Feathertail Glider (Acrobates frontalis) - Warrumbungle National Park, NSW
Short-eared Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus caninus) - Lamington National Park, QLD
Southern Greater Glider (Petauroides volans) - Barrington Tops National Park, NSW
Common Ringtail Possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) - Myall Lakes National Park, NSW
Yellow-bellied Glider (Petaurus australis) - Murramarang National Park, NSW
Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps) - Murramarang National Park, NSW
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Fierce Encounter; Life and Death in the Australian Bush. Written by H. D. Williamson. Illustrated by William Cooper. 1970.
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German troops examine an unloaded US Waco CG-4 ‘Hadrian’ glider - Normandy, June 1944. The CG-4A could carry thirteen soldiers and their equipment, a jeep or a 75mm Howitzer. It was the most popular US glider of the war with almost 14,000 in service
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Steven Vincent Johnson, ‘Glide Path,’ 1984
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2013 CESSNA TTX. For sale.
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Gliders at Sandia Peak in the 80s
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eldritch/midnight/shadow
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Today i learned from skimming around flightradar24: there's an entire glider port not too far from me and I really want to go visit!! :D
I have a huge soft spot for gliders and sailplanes, next to balloons they're one of the oldest forms of flying and their entire purpose is just to have fun playing in the sky! I would love to get my glider license one day :3
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i found like the perfect banescale for gliders but they weren’t actually on the AH so i’ve just been impatiently waiting for the owner to get back to me (and hopefully actually be willing to sell them to me. the dragon is in a page labeled ‘random dump’ with all their nestmates and other nests of dragons they hatched so i think there’s a good chance asdfds)
im just like..need this dragon Now i will die without this dragon sdafsdf
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Fierce Encounter; Life and Death in the Australian Bush. Written by H. D. Williamson. Illustrated by William Cooper. 1970.
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