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13 Animals Thought Extinct, Then Found

mnn.com — Once feared extinct, their rediscoveries are a bewildering reminder that when given a chance, life finds a way to survive.

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  • Inmerkywaters, on 11/06/2009, -0/+23Sadly, no Dodo
  • tiresias2, on 11/05/2009, -0/+10Dude, that fish is seriously going to lead the zombie takeover of the world...
  • angrytortilla, on 11/05/2009, -1/+11Checked all slides, no Ross Perot.
  • jerryjamesstone, on 11/05/2009, -0/+8Hmm...I wonder how they found them? Like, did they use one of those sound-activated key finder things?
  • happytheclam, on 11/06/2009, -1/+8I don't believe in extinction. It's all a hoax. . . like the moon landing.
  • MaxChaplin, on 11/06/2009, -0/+6T-Rex!
    There is still hope.
  • eviscerator, on 11/06/2009, -0/+4Great pictures. That rat on the last picture is adorable.
  • kahoona1, on 11/06/2009, -0/+4It's their navy.
  • aarino, on 11/06/2009, -0/+3Great slideshow! The coelacanthus is just something!
  • kakwakas, on 11/06/2009, -0/+3IMO, the craziest part about it is that last creature... That rock rat is supposedly from a family tree that went extinct 11 million years ago... Yet it looks so familiar.
  • Halsfield, on 11/06/2009, -0/+3Yea, and now you can find crested geckos at every petco and petsmart...
  • Unikraken, on 11/06/2009, -0/+3Poor trolling: 0.5/Over 9000
  • MrZaiko, on 11/06/2009, -0/+3Times were rough 11 Million years ago...
  • Regulator980, on 11/06/2009, -0/+2Honestly the Dodo isn't as interesting as the animals in these photographs. These went extinct fairly recently too. :(

    http://ecoworldly.com/2009/04/02/11-extinct-animal ...

    Also these were some pretty interesting birds that went extinct:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wm7FqZVirI
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHSN64D3CaY

  • mehan, on 11/06/2009, -1/+3looks shopped, i can tell by the pixels
  • thebreach, on 11/06/2009, -0/+2It isnt that extreme I dont think, obviously we cannot keep taps on all corners of the Earth to track a single species, though I am glad to see we have discovered species that are indeed still around, if not incredibly endangered.
  • Banoni, on 11/06/2009, -0/+2Why do they have to call them the "Lazarus Species"?

    Not trying to start some sort of religious debate...I'm just saying..
  • MisterChase, on 11/06/2009, -0/+2*****, the Coelacanth picture made me sit up-right and gawk at my screen up-close -- very few things on the Internet ever have that effect on me.
  • askantik, on 11/06/2009, -0/+2FYI, it was found in Africa, so...
  • suntzu420, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1So, would these specimens conclude that Evolution does indeed exist?
  • alfunso3, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1Elvis sighted again.
  • aptanalogy, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1I have a pet trilobite...should I tell someone? I'm thinking of breeding them...
  • blakespoorbrain, on 11/06/2009, -5/+6I think things like this are absolutely amazing. How many other species have we classified as extinct that may have a small population somewhere?

    I just hope mankind can stop ***** up for a bit, and stop killing of more species all the time.
  • dstachio, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1I was hoping for the return of the dodo bird.
  • weister42, on 11/06/2009, -1/+2I have a feeling that they tastes like chicken.
  • mishabear, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1Like you said...."species was first discovered for sale as meat at a market ... in Laos in 1996..."

    FIRST discovered. It has been since reclassified as an endangered species. Before the meat market find, they didn't really know it existed! I am sure they don't get away with it NOW...just as you don't get away with eating a panda.
  • Unikraken, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1bawwww?
  • mishabear, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1We have all sorts of terms based in mythology, i.e. Achilles heel, Oedipus complex, Pandora's Box, etc. Why should Lazarus be excluded?
  • LinkinKnight, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1the bug should've stayed extinct
  • BrokenCircle, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1...species was first discovered for sale as meat at a market ... in Laos in 1996...

    I want to know why Asians can eat Laotian Rock Rats but I cannot get away with eating a Panda?
  • mishabear, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1Coming up on the extinct list - humans.

  • mrmerhai, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1Digg it up 4 Coelacanth!
  • blaco, on 11/06/2009, -1/+1that fish looks like somethin you should never eat, except you wanna evolve into .......
  • kitkat102, on 11/06/2009, -1/+1"their rediscoveries are a bewildering reminder that when given a chance, life finds a way to survive"

    Or it might just be a clear indication that scientists are too quick to cry doom when it suits them do do so.
  • blackmcgrath, on 11/06/2009, -2/+0Jeff Dunham?
  • budboomer, on 11/06/2009, -3/+1Wow, they may be wrong about global warming / climate change too?

    You know, science and everything.
  • Ehiguy1001, on 11/07/2009, -2/+0This ain't no troll. It's TRUTH!!!!!!!!
  • christoast, on 11/06/2009, -5/+2On the Coelacanth one,

    I honestly have never seen THREE black scientists in the same room before.
  • Ehiguy1001, on 11/06/2009, -12/+1It's too bad Democrats and Liberals can't go extinct. Because no one with a right mind would want to find them alive again.

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