Our friend Ryan brings our attention to this unusually-headlined article (this one, especially, sounds like a bad low-budget film, and one that I’d gladly watch). The article’s short, so I won’t let my commentary get in the way of your curiosity:
Scientists in Kenya have located one of the world’s rarest and oddest-looking flies after a long hunt for an insect dubbed the “terrible hairy fly,” experts said on Wednesday.
Scientists first stumbled across the yellow-haired fly in 1933 and then
again in 1948. Since then, at least half a dozen expeditions have
visited a site between the towns of Thika and Garissa to find it again.
At about one centimeter long and so far found on a single 20-meter high
rock, the Mormotomyia hirsuta looks more like a spider with its hairy
legs, scientists said.
Unable to fly and partial to breeding in bat feces, the fly is thought
to live only in the dank, bat-filled cleft of an isolated rock in the
Ukazi Hills. It also has non-functional wings that resemble miniature
belt-straps, and tiny eyes.
More details – and a photo – here.
