When surveying the highland forests of Guinean in West Africa earlier this year, German biologist Natalie Weber took the first picture for a bizarre twisted-faced bat called Maclaud's horseshoe bat [it is so rare, you can't even find a piece of entry about this species on Wikipedia] after finding altogether 16 of this creature in numerous remote caves.
The bat had never been photographed before and had not been seen in the wild in nearly 40 years.
The Maclaud's bat is one of about 70 known species of horseshoe bats, so named for their distinctive—some might say grotesque—facial features called noseleafs.
Source: National Geographic
