Extinct species/living fossils

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my thoughts exactly

#fiddywinks

Love it! The charming old rascal :)

Looking at G and BRM.
So much desire in that pic.

Notice how the desire is coming from G and BRM seems more confused / reticent but still probably game.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/14/fishing-banned-rockall-new-species-found

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I don't think this one is on the forum but it looks effortlessly pretty enough that it could be.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/11/zoologists-on-the-hunt-for-tasmanian-tiger-declare-no-doubt-species-still-alive

I can't say I trust these Fortean people fully, but I'll reserve judgement until they have a success that's more than just alleged droppings or 'not much has happened yet' updates on the ever-continuing search for gigantopithecus.

Interesting. I've long thought that thylacines are still loping through the Tasmanian bush, but people just let them be to avoid disturbing their habitat.
It wold be good to try a captive breeding program though. I'd really love to see one. That blurred image of the Thylacine yawning really got me - it's bite is immense.

Thylacine:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/14/fishing-banned-rockall-new-species-found

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I don't think this one is on the forum but it looks effortlessly pretty enough that it could be.

Holy fuck, I didn't realise HR Geiger was doing more work with the alien theme.

^^ I really hope that they do find Thylasine but sadly I can't say I'm optimistic.

Genuinely, I can't begin to express how happy I'll be to eat my words if l be if I turn out to be wrong but a cursory look at their website makes it hard to think that these CFZ folk are anything more than a bunch of kooks.

My inner curmudgeon would have preferred if the reporter had put a little more time and effort into his work and told us about one of the many very real and pressing conservation issues in Australia.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/02/yetis-ruled-out-by-scientists

A little bit closer to home. Beavers were extirpated from the UK around 500 years ago and were catastrophically hunted in the rest of Western Europe up until the early 1900s. Since then, with improved hunting regulations Beavers have spread back across much of their range however they have been unable to cross the channel and now the UK is one of the few countries where they have not returned.

Now, a small breeding population of Beavers has managed to establish itself in Devon and DEFRA want to make them extinct all over again by gathering them all up to put them in a zoo which seems a horrid shame.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/30/first-england-beavers-in-centuries-captured

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/02/yetis-ruled-out-by-scientists

The yeti, and his shambling hairy cousins the bigfoot, almasty, sasquatch and migyur, may still be out there

https://soundcloud.com/user-513254017/science-of-survival-a-very-scary-fish-story

The swamps of Alabama are one of the most biodiverse places on earth. They’ve been called America’s Amazon for the remarkable number of species of fish, turtles, mussels, and other aquatic creatures. Not so long ago, the Alabama sturgeon was a staple of life in these parts. The funny looking fish swam here for millennia, migrating hundreds of miles up streams to spawn. They were caught and eaten in the tens of thousands. Then, a decade ago, they vanished. To the protectors of Alabama’s swamps, this presents a terrifying question: If the rivers can no longer support sturgeon, what does that say about the water we swim in and fish in and drink?