Statistics for Back from the Dead - Reappearing Fossils

Click here to take the quiz!

General Stats

  • This quiz has been taken 12 times
  • The average score is 1 of 10

Answer Stats

HintAnswerWhere & When% Correct
Telegram read: "MOST IMPORTANT PRESERVE SKELETON AND GILLS = FISH DESCRIBED"Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)Chalumna River (now Tyolomnqa), South Africa; 1938
100%
Heralded as a living fossil; now a popular ornamental tree.Dawn Redwood AKA Metasequoia (Metasequoia glyptostroboides)Lichuan County, Hubei, China; 1944
22%
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%
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%
Here piggy piggy piggy!Chacoan peccary AKA tagua (Catagonus wagneri)Argentinian Gran Chaco; 1975
0%
Before 2006, there was only a single extant specimen, a fossil preserved in Dominican amber.Gracilidris ant (Gracilidris pombero)Columbia; 2006
0%
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%
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%
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%
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%

Score Distribution

Percentile by Number Answered

Percent of People with Each Score

Your Score History

You have not taken this quiz