Because the Blyde Rondavel gecko hadn’t been recorded for more than 10 years, it was considered a “lost” species. The ...

The Monte Gordo grasshopper (Eyprepocprifas insularis) has proved to be a rare and elusive species: its last, and, until now, ...

T WO Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) researchers have rediscovered a gecko species that had not been seen for over 33 years.

A gecko species not seen for over 30 years and feared extinct has been rediscovered in a remote South African canyon. Researchers from the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) have located specimens of the ...

A grasshopper thought extinct since 1980 was found alive in Cape Verde. Scientists call it a living fossil and urge ...

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Some doubted the species ever existed at all. But the Endangered Wildlife Trust says two of its researchers have found and ...

“I considered it either to be a myth or simply an unusual variant of another species.” Praveenraj, who works as a scientist at ICAR-CIARI in the Andamans and holds a PhD in Aquatic Animal Health ...

Nearly 40 years later, in 2023, two researchers rediscovered the species in Monte Gordo Natural Park — the same park where Lecoq discovered it decades earlier, according to the study.