[HN Gopher] Scientists rediscover an insect thought to be extinc...
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       Scientists rediscover an insect thought to be extinct for 80 years
        
       Author : thedday
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2022-11-08 17:17 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | BeetleB wrote:
       | My favorite "extinct" animal found again (also 80 years!):
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       | https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/02/24/147367644/s...
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       | Wikipedia has a whole page of these:
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_taxon
        
       | bitwize wrote:
       | "Life finds a way."
       | 
       | > cockroach
       | 
       | "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could..."
        
       | Someone wrote:
       | FTA: _"Long believed to be extinct on the main island of Lord
       | Howe Island"_
       | 
       | Reading that, I thought this was about
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryococelus_australis (
       | _"Dryococelus australis, commonly known as the Lord Howe Island
       | stick insect or tree lobster, is a species of stick insect that
       | lives on the Lord Howe Island Group. It is the only member of the
       | monotypic genus Dryococelus. Thought to be extinct by 1920, it
       | was rediscovered in 2001"_
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       | This is a different species, though, and unlike the stick insect,
       | which was rediscovered on Ball's pyramid
       | (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%27s_Pyramid) it wasn't
       | extinct on the island.
        
       | coldtea wrote:
       | > _Thought to Be Extinct for 80 Years_
       | 
       | Let's hope Thought will return after those 80 years...
        
       | l1n wrote:
       | The Lord is rising up from under the bloodwood tree,
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       | He gave new life to you, the Wood-feeding cockroachy,
       | 
       | Sent down his angels with feathery antennae,
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       | Who emerged to say the roaches aren't lost to history,
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       | 'Scending tree bark stairs.
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       | Hey la, hey la, the roaches are back.
       | 
       | 'Scending tree bark stairs.
       | 
       | Hey la, hey la, the roaches are back!
        
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