Shimano stumbled upon snaps of the black mites – posted by an amateur photographer – as he was browsing Twitter last year. — Pixabay
TOKYO: Call it the mite of Twitter: Japanese and Austrian researchers have confirmed a bug they spotted posted in a tweet is a previously unknown species, now aptly dubbed “Ameronothrus twitter”.
Satoshi Shimano, a professor at Tokyo’s Hosei University, stumbled upon snaps of the black mites – posted by an amateur photographer – as he was browsing Twitter last year.
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