Statistics for Lazarus Taxa

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Clue	Year of Rediscovery	Answer	% Correct
Ancient lobe-finned fish	1938	Coelacanth	100%
Flightless New Zealand rail	1948	Takahe	100%
Asian rodent found as meat in a market	2005	Laotian rock rat	67%
Ball's Pyramid insect	2001	Lord Howe Island stick insect	67%
Dingo-like canine caught on camera at 4,200m	2016	New Guinea highland wild dog	67%
Primate found in inaccessible Andes cloud forests	1926	Yellow-tailed woolly monkey	67%
European rodent thought extinct after the construction of a hospital	2000	Bavarian pine vole	33%
Mollusc rediscovered by an aquarium intern	2002	Bermuda land snail	33%
An entire class of molluscs 'bearing one plate'	1952	Class Monoplacophora	33%
Lake Constance salmonid	2016	Deepwater char	33%
1m-long burrowing annelid from Idaho	2010	Giant palouse earthworm	33%
Pouched amphibian rediscovered in the Ecuadorian canopy	2019	Horned marsupial frog	33%
Canadian fruit rediscovered in a seed-bank	1996	Montreal melon	33%
Tiny insectivorous alpine marsupial	1966	Mountain pygmy possum	33%
Small burrowing seabird from New Zealand	2003	New Zealand storm petrel	33%
Nocturnal Australian desert bird	1979	Night parrot	33%
Small perennial New Zealand herb	2015	Pygmy goosefoot	33%
200 million year old trees kept closely guarded	1994	Wollemi pine	33%
Ornamentally-popular Cretaceous conifer	1944	Dawn redwood	0%