Turns Out, These Adorable Australian Greater Gliders That Can Glide Up To 100 Meters Are Actually 3 Different Species

It might be hard to believe, but the year 2020 has brought some great things too. Let’s take this adorable creature that you can see in the photos below as an example.

For years, scientists have been noticing that some greater gliders look quite different from one another. "There has been speculation for a while that there was more than one species of greater glider, but now we have proof from the DNA. It changes the whole way we think about them," said James Cook University's PhD student Denise McGregor, according to Australian National University. The creature was being recognized as a single species for 228 years, until now.