Animals that have been resurrected after extinction include: Gran Sriris ants, New Guinea big-eared bats, La Palma tuatara, Laos rock rats, and coelacanths.
1. Granaris ant
A major discovery was made in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina in 2006. At that time, researchers discovered a species of stinky ant subspecies. family of ants.
For about 15 to 20 million years, Gransiris ants were thought not to exist, but they were found in the grasslands of the Pampa ecoregion in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. During the observation period, scientists monitored the living body of this creature that was considered extinct.
2. New Guinea big-eared bat
They were considered extinct in 1890. For more than 120 years, no one has found any trace of the big-eared bat. That was until July 2012, when Catherine Hughes and Julie Blinkenbob of the University of Queensland stumbled upon this unknown bat while studying microbats on the island of Papua, New Guinea.
3. La Palma Tuatara
The La Palma Tuatara has disappeared for 500 years, and was met with great skepticism when it was rediscovered. In 2007, researchers at the Sinagaticus Institute of Resource Research photographed what they believed to be evidence of the long-lost La Palma tuatara.
4. Laos rock rat
More than 11 million years ago, an Asian rodent belonging to the family Diatomidae completely disappeared. But in 2005, Paulina Jenkins of the Natural History Museum in London wrote an article that changed all that. Jenkins and other authors described a special rodent that did not belong to any existing species. Therefore, a new family was listed for it - Rock Rats.
A year later, Mary Dawson of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, discovered that the species had many similarities to the extinct Laotian rock rat, such as its thick, squirrel-like tail and unique Skull, it was eventually revealed that this rock rat was an ancient rodent that had disappeared long ago.
5. Coelacanth
For 66 million years, the coelacanth was considered an extinct species and they failed to survive the Cretaceous. Originally they grew in the western Indian Ocean between the east coast of Africa and Indonesia. The 400-million-year-old coelacanth is said to be somewhat related to reptiles and lungfish.
After disappearing for a long time, they were rediscovered in 1938 in one of their former habitats, the coast of South Africa. As one of the Lazarus species, the evolutionary trajectory of the coelacanth is somewhat similar to that of the Laotian rock rat and the Gran Sriris ant. They both disappeared from the fossil record for a period of time and then reappeared. They are among the top ten wonders in the world. One of the animals.