A welcome back story

Nature Talk
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Incredible ‘re-discovery’ story about a mammal that hasn’t been observed for 80 years.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/land-mammals/shimmering-golden-mole-thought-extinct-photographed-and-filmed-over-80-years-after-last-sighting

And the iNat observation!
https://www.inaturalist.ca/observations/192449830

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That’s fantastic!

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So I had this fanciful thought that some-when in the future, there’ll be gene-sniffing tracking ‘sniffers’ built right into our observation cameras.

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They are just the right size for feeding a Nepenthes mollis! /jk

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Wow, that’s great news. I love it when a “lost” species is rediscovered.