VasikkA wrote:
So flying piranhas are actually bats?
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Actually that is completely true. It was discovered by eminent biologist Frederick VonHeidenhouser back in 1915, i believe, that bats actually looked nothing like what we had thought they had looked like for hundreds of years. The simple reason for the prolonged confusion was just the fact that bats are really fucking creepy and nobody really ever wanted to get close enough to study them.
I think Darwin put it best-" I am enormously intruiged by the nocturnal lives of bats and would study the creatures more closely if they didn't creep the shit outta me!"
Frederick was finally brave enough to capture some of the creatures, and upon reporting that they were actually flying pirhanas, he shocked the scientific community so badly that they still seem to deny it to this day.
Some courageous scientists have stepped forward to try to proclaim this truth but are quickly silenced by the vast majority of scientists who don't want to be laughed at like in middle school.