New Bug Discovery Proves 'Mite' Of Twitter
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Satoshi Shimano stumbled upon snaps of the black mites -- posted by an amateur photographer -- as he was browsing Twitter last year.
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." Ameronothrus twitter (one new species of oribatida mite via twitter oribatida mite)https://t.co/roRjNGR90E#SpeciesDiversity#twitter#Oribatida#oribatidmite 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. The pictures showed a group of the tiny arachnids massing in a crack in a concrete wharf at the fishing port of Choshi, southeast of the capital. "Immediately after I saw them, I thought they were different from others I knew, and thought that they could be a new species," Shimano told AFP.
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