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The species was thought to have gone extinct in 1969 due to the introduced weka until its rediscovery in 1987. [27] Giant Palouse earthworm (Driloleirus americanus), a species of earthworm belonging to the genus Driloleirus; thought extinct in the 1980s, but found again in 2006. [28]
A bird species found in mainland Europe and the Mediterranean is thought to be extinct globally by a coalition of conservation groups.. The slender-billed curlew – a migratory shorebird that ...
Researchers have discovered several species of animals that were thought to be distinct and new species of wildlife in Honduras's Mosquitia rainforest.
More than 1,300 pea-sized snails, once believed to have gone extinct after no sightings were recorded for more than a century, have been released into the wild. Two species of the Desertas Island ...
The species was well-known to the native people, but it took a while for Western scientists to acknowledge its existence; it is known locally as the tagua. Because it was originally described as extinct before its "rediscovery", it is an example of a Lazarus taxon .
Chelonoidis niger phantasticus (commonly known as the Fernandina Island Galápagos tortoise or Narborough Island giant tortoise) is a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise that was discovered in 1906 and thought extinct, until a single female was discovered living on Fernandina Island by an expedition in February 2019.
Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, which was thought to be extinct, has stunned scientists after being filmed in a tropical forest in Indonesia for the first time.. The egg-laying mammal, named ...
Sushkin's goose (Anser neglectus) was a putative species of goose now thought to be extinct. The status as a species has been contested and a 2022 DNA study based on five specimens found no evidence of genetic isolation. It has sometimes been considered a subspecies of the bean goose but some have proposed