Never Feed Them After Midnight! Gremlins Look-Alikes Pygmy Tarsiers Found After Being Hidden From View For 80 Years!

In our own species, trends from the 1980’s have come back into fashion recently—witness the reemergence of leg warmers—and now the animal kingdom is getting in on the ’80’s thing too, as Pygmy Tarsiers, animals closely resembling creatures from the 1984 movie Gremlins, and thought to be extinct, have been found in the mountaintop forests of Indonesia. The carnivorous primate had not been witnessed alive since 1921, but three live specimens were found and tagged this summer. (In 2000, Indonesian scientists accidentally trapped and killed a pygmy tarsier mistaking it for a rat).

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