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Lazarus Taxa

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Clue
Year of Rediscovery
Answer
Primate found in inaccessible Andes cloud forests
1926
Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
Ancient lobe-finned fish
1938
Coelacanth
Ornamentally-popular Cretaceous conifer
1944
Dawn redwood
Flightless New Zealand rail
1948
Takahe
An entire class of molluscs 'bearing one plate'
1952
Class Monoplacophora
Tiny insectivorous alpine marsupial
1966
Mountain pygmy possum
Canadian fruit rediscovered in a seed-bank
1996
Montreal melon
Nocturnal Australian desert bird
1979
Night parrot
200 million year old trees kept closely guarded
1994
Wollemi pine
European rodent thought extinct after the construction of a hospital
2000
Bavarian pine vole
Ball's Pyramid insect
2001
Lord Howe Island stick insect
Mollusc rediscovered by an aquarium intern
2002
Bermuda land snail
Small burrowing seabird from New Zealand
2003
New Zealand storm petrel
Asian rodent found as meat in a market
2005
Laotian rock rat
1m-long burrowing annelid from Idaho
2010
Giant palouse earthworm
Small perennial New Zealand herb
2015
Pygmy goosefoot
Lake Constance salmonid
2016
Deepwater char
Dingo-like canine caught on camera at 4,200m
2016
New Guinea highland wild dog
Pouched amphibian rediscovered in the Ecuadorian canopy
2019
Horned marsupial frog
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