Hint | Answer | Where & When | % Correct |
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Telegram read: "MOST IMPORTANT PRESERVE SKELETON AND GILLS = FISH DESCRIBED" | Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) | Chalumna River (now Tyolomnqa), South Africa; 1938 | 100%
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Heralded as a living fossil; now a popular ornamental tree. | Dawn Redwood AKA Metasequoia (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) | Lichuan County, Hubei, China; 1944 | 22%
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Another marsupial, also tiny, also nocturnal. The only Australian marsupial restricted to alpine areas. | Mountain pygmy possum (Burramys parvus) | A ski resort at Mount Hotham in Victoria, Australia; 1966 | 11%
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It's not a pine but that hasn't stopped people from calling it one. | Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) | Wollemi National Park, New South Wales, Australia; September 10th, 1994 | 11%
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Here piggy piggy piggy! | Chacoan peccary AKA tagua (Catagonus wagneri) | Argentinian Gran Chaco; 1975 | 0%
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Before 2006, there was only a single extant specimen, a fossil preserved in Dominican amber. | Gracilidris ant (Gracilidris pombero) | Columbia; 2006 | 0%
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Love child of a squirrel and a rat; cute waddling gait. Only found among limestone boulders on hillsides. | Laotian rock rat AKA kha-nyou (Laonastes aenigmamus) | Thakhek, Khammouan, Laos; 1996 | 0%
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Males carry developing eggs; females court males. Nobody has time to mess around with princesses. | Majorcan midwife toad AKA Mallorcan midwife toad AKA ferreret (Alytes muletensis) | Majorca, Spain; 1979 | 0%
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Tiny nocturnal arboreal marsupial with a prehensile tail. The only New World marsupial that shares ancestors with Australian marsupials. Not a monkey, though you would be tempted to think by its name... | Monito del monte AKA chumaihuén aka colocolo (Dromiciops gliroides) | Mountains of southwestern South America (Chile and Argentina); specimen 1894, re-classification 2010 | 0%
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Tall rainforest tree growing up to 40 metres (130 ft) in height. | Nightcap Oak (Eidothea hardeniana and Eidothea zoexylocarya) | Rainforest in the Nightcap Range, New South Wales and Queensland Australia; 2000 and 1996 respectively | 0%
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