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Stumbling Upon an “Extinct” Rodent on the Edge

21 October, 2019 by Lost & Found 1 Comment

A rat may not sound like an animal worth caring about. But, the San Quentin kangaroo rat (Dipodomys gravipes) is not your ordinary rodent. Kangaroo rats get around by jumping on their two hind legs like miniature, pouch-less kangaroos. One of the 22 species of kangaroo rat, the San Quentin kangaroo rat exists only in […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: animal, biodiversity, conservation, Dipodomys gravipes, extinction, Lost & Found, Lost and Found, Quentin kangaroo rat, rediscovery, species rediscovery

How to Get the First Photo of an Extinct Monkey

29 August, 2019 by Lost & Found Leave a Comment

There had been no trace of Bouvier’s red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus bouvieri) since the 1970s. In 2008, after almost 40 years without a recorded sighting, scientists considered it extinct. Bouvier’s red colobus is so rare that if you google it, you won’t find a single picture of it on the internet. This monkey lives in […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: Bouvier’s red colobus\, Bushmeat, Congo, Expedition, Extinct, Lost & Found, Lost and Found, Monkey, rediscovery, species, Wildlife Conservation Society

Playing Hide and Go Seek in Kalalau Valley

12 July, 2019 by Lost & Found 2 Comments

Hawai’i is easily one of the most isolated places on earth, home to over ten thousand species found nowhere else in the world; each arriving as a castaway through the agency of wind and sea thousands of years before human habitation. Without the threat of predation or competition, Hawaii’s native plants and animals developed remarkable […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: extinction, hawaii, Hibiscadelphus woodii, Lazarus, Lost & Found, Lost and Found, plant, rediscovery, species, species rediscovery

Hunting for a Harlequin – rediscovering the Jambato harlequin frog

25 June, 2019 by Lost & Found 2 Comments

The Jambato harlequin frog was not always a rarity. Many villagers from the mountains of northern Ecuador remember the days when the little frog was a common sight: dwelling in damp corners of their houses, being prodded by curious children, and not infrequently being ground up for medicine. Amphibian of the Andes The Jambato harlequin […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: Ecuador, extinction, frog, Jambato harlequin frog, Lost & Found, Lost and Found, rediscovery, species rediscovery

The Cuban Solenodon: Is it a goat; is it a bird… no it’s a dinosaur rat!

15 June, 2019 by Lost & Found Leave a Comment

If I told you that I knew an animal that smelled like a goat, chirped like a bird, kills with its saliva and runs on its tip-toes, you wouldn’t believe me- right? So there’s not a lot of point in my writing this, given that you believe my subject to be completely imaginary. Okay, now […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: biodiversity, Caribbean, Cuba, Lost & Found, Lost and Found, mammal, rediscovery, Solenodon, species rediscovery, Wildlife

Meet the Lost & Found team: Elliot Connor

18 May, 2019 by Lost & Found 1 Comment

Elliot Connor is a young conservationist living in Sydney, Australia. He is a passionate insect-lover, and his raised fig tree leaf beetles, spiny leaf stick insects, and assassin bugs in addition to his three pygmy bearded dragons at home. He runs a field naturalist group in the Sydney area, and has recently won a competition […]

Filed Under: Lost & Found Tagged With: extinction, Lazarus, Lost & Found, species rediscovery

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