Meet Ameronothrus twitter, new bug discovered via a tweet
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At just 0.7 milimetres long, the mites are miniscule and harmless to people, Shimano said. They are a type of coastal mite that eats algae and lichen and lives in a group.
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. It is 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. 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.More Related News