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Extinct Or Just Missing? Rediscovered Animal Species

'Extinct' tree frog rediscovered in India after 137 years
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An extraordinary tree frog thought to have died out more than a century ago has been rediscovered in India.
The discovery was made by renowned Indian biologist Sathyabhama Das Biju and a team of scientists, in the jungles of north-eastern India.
It is hoped the frogs might now be found across a wide area, from China to Thailand.
Studies of the frog have also led scientists to reclassify it as an entirely new genus.
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Krepostnoi said:
Tree lobsters and walking sticks.
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I've been away from the Cryptozoology sub-forums for a while. Had happened today, upon this report about Lord Howe Island's tree lobsters and their problems, elsewhere on the Net -- completely fascinated, went to make a post here in the "Rediscovered" thread; and found that a more on-the-ball participant than me, had done so nearly a month ago.

I'd never before, heard of Lord Howe Island -- now, if I win the Lottery, that's a place which I want to visit !
 
Frogs hops back from extinction.

A school-age boy has rediscovered an Ecuadorian frog considered extinct for at least 30 years. The animal has now successfully bred in captivity.

The colourful Jambato harlequin frog (Atelopus ignescens) was once so widespread in Ecuador that it turned up in people’s homes, was something children played with and was used as an ingredient in traditional medicine. Then it was suddenly wiped out, probably by a combination of climate change and fungal disease.

“It was such a long-standing presence in the Ecuadorian community that we would have never conceived it could disappear,” says Luis Coloma of the Jambatu Center for Research and Conservation of Amphibians.

But it did. Until now, that is.

In 2016, the centre offered a $1000 cash prize for anyone able to find the lost frog, not expecting success but hoping to raise awareness of amphibian conservation.

Against the odds, a young boy and his family found a small colony of Jambato harlequins, securing the survival of the species and funds for the boy’s education. ...

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ocial&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1499680403
 
ramonmercado said:
Frogs hops back from extinction.

A school-age boy has rediscovered an Ecuadorian frog considered extinct for at least 30 years. The animal has now successfully bred in captivity.

The colourful Jambato harlequin frog (Atelopus ignescens) was once so widespread in Ecuador that it turned up in people’s homes, was something children played with and was used as an ingredient in traditional medicine. Then it was suddenly wiped out, probably by a combination of climate change and fungal disease.

“It was such a long-standing presence in the Ecuadorian community that we would have never conceived it could disappear,” says Luis Coloma of the Jambatu Center for Research and Conservation of Amphibians.

But it did. Until now, that is.

In 2016, the centre offered a $1000 cash prize for anyone able to find the lost frog, not expecting success but hoping to raise awareness of amphibian conservation.

Against the odds, a young boy and his family found a small colony of Jambato harlequins, securing the survival of the species and funds for the boy’s education. ...

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ocial&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1499680403
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That should be in 'happy stories' :)
 
The bald-faced Vanzolini saki is back! Maybe he'll write some more short stories.

Monkey rediscovered in Brazil after 80 years
by Christina Selby on 9 August 2017

  • An Ecuadorian naturalist collected the bald-faced Vanzolini saki in 1936 along the Eiru River. His record was the first and last known living evidence of the species.
  • In February 2017, an expedition called Houseboat Amazon set out to survey the forest along the Juruá River and its tributaries, with the hopes of finding the Vanzolini saki.
  • After just four days, the team spotted one leaping from branch to branch in a tall tree by the Eiru River.
  • The saki's habitat is still fairly pristine, but the scientists worry its proximity to Brazil's "arc of deforestation" and hunting pressure may threaten the species in the future.
EIRUNEPE, Brazil – An expedition exploring a remote watershed in the western Amazon has uncovered the first living evidence of a species of monkey not seen alive by scientists in 80 years, according to saki expert and expedition leader Dr. Laura Marsh. The account of the discovery will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Oryx.

Houseboat Amazon, a major biological expedition wrapped up earlier this year in the Upper Juruá watershed located in the Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas. The three-month expedition was the first survey of primates and other mammals in the watershed in more than 60 years.

The main goal was to find the missing bald-faced Vanzolini saki, a large monkey with a long fluffy tail and golden fur on its arms and legs. Ecuadorian naturalist Alfonzo Olalla collected this species in 1936 along the Rio Eiru. His record was the first evidence of the Vanzolini saki and no other living evidence had been found in the area since. ...

https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/monkey-rediscovered-in-brazil-after-80-years/
 
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Strewth!

A rare mammal has been discovered living in Western Australia (WA) decades after it was thought to have been wiped out of the region.

The distinctive black-footed tree rat was spotted by chance last year on a seasonal monitoring trip when a researcher went on night time stroll.

Months of camera footage have now confirmed its existence.

Researchers said they "cracked a bottle of champagne" to celebrate its return after a 30 year absence.

The native rat has telltale black feet and a long black and white tail.

Weighing up to 800g, it's considered enormous compared to its more common relatives such as the golden-backed tree-rat at around 200g.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-41034631
 
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Two recent re-discoveries of beasties thought to have, possibly, been extinct
1) The world's largest known bee the Megachile pluto (Wallace's Giant Bee) has been rediscovered in Indonesia
The world's largest bee 'rediscovered' after 38 years via the Natural History Museum

2) The Ferdinanda Giant Tortoise Chelonoidis phantasticus. This is a female and, in my opinion, should be named "Granny Weatherwax" (I aten't dead)
How an ‘extinct’ tortoise was rediscovered after a century via National Geographic
 
I know this is a slightly childish comment, but what (literally) wonderful species to have survived. As a silly sentimental ape, I can't help but be more excited by the kind of creatures Sinbad could have encountered than by another mono-cellular blob.
 
Yithian said:
I know this is a slightly childish comment, but what (literally) wonderful species to have survived. As a silly sentimental ape, I can't help but be more excited by the kind of creatures Sinbad could have encountered than by another mono-cellular blob.
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We need more silly sentimental apes, especially new species of such.
 
From National Geographic:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/11/silver-backed-chevrotain-mouse-deer-reappears-vietnam/

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Lost to the outside world for a generation—and feared extinct—a small deer-like species with tiny fangs has been photographed tiptoeing through a dry lowland forest in southern Vietnam. The last known scientific recording of the animal, known as the silver-backed chevrotain (Tragulus versicolor), dates to 1990, when a hunter killed one and donated the specimen to scientists.

"It's a really cool species, and we'd long hoped to find proof they were still around," says Andrew Tilker, a biologist specializing in Southeast Asian wildlife at Global Wildlife Conservation, an environmental group, and a doctoral student with the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Germany.

The silver-backed chevrotain, also known as the Vietnamese mouse-deer, is about the size of a large rabbit, with a silver sheen on its rump. The creatures have tusk-like incisors, visible in the new photographs of the animals. Because chevrotains lack horns or antlers, and the fangs are especially long in males, scientists think the males use them to compete for territory and mates.
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Rediscovered after 25 years and having been feared extinct, the Chevrotain.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/11/asia/mouse-deer-vietnam-chevrotain-rediscovered-scn/index.html

A tiny deer-like creature about the size of a rabbit has been photographed in the wild for the first time in three decades in southern Vietnam, delighting conservationists who feared the species was extinct.

The silver-backed chevrotain, also called the Vietnamese mouse deer, was last recorded more than 25 years ago when a team of Vietnamese and Russian researchers obtained a dead chevrotain from a hunter.
 
Frog rediscovered.

A rare species of frog with translucent skin has been seen in Bolivia for the first time in 18 years.

Three Bolivian Cochran frogs, a species of so-called "glass frogs", were spotted by conservationists earlier this month in a national park. The tiny amphibians weigh just 70-80g and measure 19-24mm. Glass frogs are found in Central and South America and have skin so translucent that their internal organs can be seen through their bellies.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51277427
 
Filmed in the wild for the first time since rediscovery.

THE WORLD’S LARGEST bee may also be the planet’s most elusive. First discovered in 1859 by the prominent scientist Alfred Russel Wallace, researchers could locate it again, and it was presumed extinct.

But Wallace’s giant bee (Megachile pluto) was not gone. In 1981, an entomologist named Adam Messer searched and found it on three islands in Indonesia, on an archipelago called the North Moluccas. He collected a specimen and wrote about his discovery in 1984.



Now, for the first time, it has been photographed and filmed alive in the wild, by a team including nature photographer Clay Bolt. Meanwhile, in the last year, two specimens of the insect have been sold on eBay for thousands of dollars, raising fears about its continued survival.

The bee, which grows up to an inch and a half long with a wingspan of 2.5 inches, has large mandibles that almost look like those of a stag beetle. It uses them to scrape sticky resin off trees to build burrows within termite nests, where females raise their young. Like other bees, it feeds on nectar and pollen.

Messer wrote in 1984 that it remains rare in its range, and as this solitary bee lives only in aerial termite mounds, isn’t exactly easy to find. It was collected in 1991 by a French researcher, though not filmed or photographed at that time.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/02/worlds-largest-bee-rediscovered-not-extinct
 
We now nose it's not extinct.

Nearly 130 years ago, Italian explorer Elio Modigliani arrived at a natural history museum in Genoa with a lizard he’d reportedly collected from the forests of Indonesia.

Based on Modigliani’s specimen, the striking lizard — notable for a horn that protrudes from its nose — got its official taxonomic description and name, Harpesaurus modiglianii, in 1933. But no accounts of anyone finding another such lizard were ever recorded, until now.

drawing of Modigliani’s nose-horned lizard


This illustration of Modigliani’s nose-horned lizard was made in 1933 based on the original lizard first found in 1891. That specimen turned pale blue due to how it was preserved.C.A. PUTRA ET AL/TAPROBANICA: THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN BIODIVERSITY, 2020, ANNALI DEL MUSEO CIVICO DI STORIA NATURALE DI GENOVA 56, PL. VI

In June 2018, Chairunas Adha Putra, an independent wildlife biologist conducting a bird survey in a mountainous region surrounding Lake Toba in Indonesia’s North Sumatra, called herpetologist Thasun Amarasinghe. Near the lake, which fills the caldera of a supervolcano, Putra had found “a dead lizard with interesting morphological features, but he wasn’t sure what it was,” says Amarasinghe, who later asked the biologist to send the specimen to Jakarta.

It took only a look at the lizard’s nose-horn for Amarasinghe to suspect that he was holding Modigliani’s lizard. “It is the only nose-horned lizard species found in North Sumatra,” he says.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nose-horned-dragon-lizard-lost-science-found
 
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After a 50-year lapse in documented sightings, the elephant shrew (aka sengi) is found to be alive and well in Africa.
Elephant shrew rediscovered in Africa after 50 years

A little-known mammal related to an elephant but as small as a mouse has been rediscovered in Africa after 50 years of obscurity.

The last scientific record of the "lost species" of elephant shrew was in the 1970s, despite local sightings.

The creature was found alive and well in Djibouti, a country in the Horn of Africa, during a scientific expedition.

Elephant shrews, or sengis, are neither elephants nor shrews, but related to aardvarks, elephants and manatees.

They have distinctive trunk-like noses, which they use to feast on insects.

There are 20 species of sengis in the world, and the Somali sengi (Elephantulus revoilii) is one of the most mysterious, known to science only from 39 individuals collected decades ago and stored in museums. The species was previously known only from Somalia, hence its name.

Steven Heritage, a research scientist at the Duke University Lemur Center in Durham, US, and a member of the expedition to the Horn of Africa in 2019, said he was thrilled to put the species "back on the radar". ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53820395
 
Cute! I does look like it has a large head in comparison to its body.
 
Welcome back!

A little-known mammal related to an elephant but as small as a mouse has been rediscovered in Africa after 50 years of obscurity.

The last scientific record of the "lost species" of elephant shrew was in the 1970s, despite local sightings. The creature was found alive and well in Djibouti, a country in the Horn of Africa, during a scientific expedition.

Elephant shrews, or sengis, are neither elephants nor shrews, but related to aardvarks, elephants and manatees. They have distinctive trunk-like noses, which they use to feast on insects.

There are 20 species of sengis in the world, and the Somali sengi (Elephantulus revoilii) is one of the most mysterious, known to science only from 39 individuals collected decades ago and stored in museums. The species was previously known only from Somalia, hence its name.

Steven Heritage, a research scientist at the Duke University Lemur Center in Durham, US, and a member of the expedition to the Horn of Africa in 2019, said he was thrilled to put the species "back on the radar".

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53820395
 
Surely it can't be 50 years since I last saw a Naturalist wittering on about Elphant shrews - that nose is just made for telly.
 
Bad Bungle said:
Surely it can't be 50 years since I last saw a Naturalist wittering on about Elphant shrews - that nose is just made for telly.
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There are multiple elephant shrew species, of which only the one African species was considered MIA.
 
For circa 50 years the New Guinea singing dog was known only by the severely inbred population of specimens conservationists had collected. In 2016 it was determined that singing dogs seemed to be still living in the wild. In 2018 further research established the wild population is at least far more genetically pure than the inbred captive population.
Rare 'singing' dog, thought to be extinct in wild for 50 years, still thrives

This dog can sing ... or at least it can yodel.

The New Guinea singing dog, an extremely rare breed, is best known for its unique barks and howls -- it's able to make harmonic sounds that have been compared to the calls of a humpback whale.

Only around 200 captive singing dogs live in conservation centers or zoos, the descendants of a few wild dogs captured in the 1970s. The animals are severely inbred due to a lack of new genes.

None had been seen in their natural habitat for half a century until 2016, when an expedition located and studied 15 wild dogs in the remote highlands of the western side of New Guinea, known as Papua, in Indonesia. A new expedition returned to the study site in 2018 to collect detailed biological samples to confirm whether these highland wild dogs truly are the predecessors of the singing dogs. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/31/asia/singing-dog-found-in-wild-scn-trnd/index.html
 
EnolaGaia said:
For circa 50 years the New Guinea singing dog was known only by the severely inbred population of specimens conservationists had collected. In 2016 it was determined that singing dogs seemed to be still living in the wild. In 2018 further research established the wild population is at least far more genetically pure than the inbred captive population.


FULL STORY: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/31/asia/singing-dog-found-in-wild-scn-trnd/index.html
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I will give them a round of a paws
 
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