“When we caught it, we all just looked at it and said, ‘You look ridiculous. Look how big your nose leaf is,’” Jon Flanders, director of endangered species interventions at Bat Conservation International, told Mongabay. The odd-looking creature in their net was a Hill’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hilli)—the first seen since 1981. “We feared the species may have already gone extinct,” Flanders said. “To think that we’ve been the first people to actually see this bat in almost 40 years … It was just remarkable.” The Hill’s horseshoe bat, not seen in 40 years, was found again in Rwanda’s Nyungwe …

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