Giant Palouse Earthworm
To further press our insect and cash back credit cards analogy above we’ll talk about the Giant Palouse Earthworm. If you absolutely adore insects then you’ll be glad to know that the Giant Palouse Earthworm has been rediscovered. Scientists thought that the bug was extinct back in the 1980’s but it was rediscovered in 2010 by scientists from the university of Idaho. What makes these worms special is that they can grow up to 3 feet in length and they are completely white, albino.
Giant Palouse Earthworm
Coelacanth
As a living fossil, the Coelacanth is probably the most well known ‘rediscovered’ animal in the world – as this fish was supposed to have roamed the waters of the world over 400 million years in the past. Scientists originally hypothesized that the fish had gone extinct around 60 million years ago, but this wasn’t the case. A Coelacanth was found off the shores of South Africa back in 1938 and since then more and more have been found.
Coelacanth
