Another Animal Back from the Dead!
The world keeps getting stranger. This is probably the fifth report of hitherto extinct animals being rediscovered that I’ve come across in the last 3 or 4 months. A kitten-sized Australian marsupial thought to have gone extinct over a century ago appears to be alive and well. The pig-footed bandicoot was last spotted in 1901, but today researchers provided fresh evidence of its existence. “It’s a miracle,” says Jared Watson, a conservation biologist at the University of Brunswick in Melbourne. “I thought we’d seen the last of this 8-teated, posteriorly pouched creature.” Of course it’s back just in time for the biggest mass extinction since the dinosaurs croaked. The irony can’t get any bitter, eh?Read the full story here.
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