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packman

(16,296 posts)
Wed Nov 13, 2019, 08:33 PM Nov 2019

Good news - Once thought extinct, now verified still here

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The recent rediscovery of a small animal in Vietnam is big news for the scientific community.


Biologist An Nguyen managed to scientifically confirm the existence of the silver-backed chevrotain, aka the Vietnamese mouse-deer, for the first time since 1907 ― though there was a sighting in 1990

Until Nguyen photographed the rare mammal in the wild, the chevrotain was feared extinct and appeared on Global

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/silver-backed-chevrotain-rediscovered-vietnam-mouse-deer_n_5dcc341ce4b0a794d1f953aa?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaHVmZnBvc3QuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANmcUBvYwpsKasLZuSwqI7HIQmiLUpAfHF0VudSNZIZ3z02IneDw3XAzdGxSjXJzji1oO7Dgjb_DzECLxW12i0vI4VbcWyunfKsp5riWyr7vq9sI99uE6QgB0aaevg-X6zpsK9U0dtsS4zJy_ENjQMHBPwgSc5u-Cg94ajF26gfy
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Good news - Once thought extinct, now verified still here (Original Post) packman Nov 2019 OP
That is awesome Bettie Nov 2019 #1
Those ARE extinct groundloop Nov 2019 #4
"The world's smallest hoofed animal" dalton99a Nov 2019 #2
I would have guessed Key Deer. NurseJackie Nov 2019 #5
I'm still holding onto hope for a thylacine. mike_c Nov 2019 #3
One was spotted not long ago cpamomfromtexas Nov 2019 #6
Possibly spotted. mike_c Nov 2019 #9
I really thought you were going to reveal an uncorrupted repug. efhmc Nov 2019 #7
cute lil thing Demovictory9 Nov 2019 #8

Bettie

(16,110 posts)
1. That is awesome
Wed Nov 13, 2019, 08:38 PM
Nov 2019

however, I thought you were going to say "a republican with a conscience" given today's festivities.

mike_c

(36,281 posts)
9. Possibly spotted.
Thu Nov 14, 2019, 02:20 PM
Nov 2019

There have been reports of sightings for years, but not until recently have there been credible reports, and so far no unambiguous physical evidence. Without photos, it never happened.

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