Sep 1, 2024
"Flying wolf", a large mystacinid bat from an alternate Australia that actually lives up to its reputation (aka "The Hellhole Continent"). It and its relatives the flying dogs made a mess of bat taxonomy by getting misclassified as megabats when they're actually related to New Zealand short-tailed bats, rendering megabats polyphyletic in this alternate timeline. Also, it's an urban pest and an invasive species in the American South and Mexico.
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