Another Sign Of Hope For All?

It is so rare to find an extint animal is not extinct. Time to celebrate.

Laotian Rock Rat (Kha-nyou or Laonastes aenigmamus), is a squirrel-like rat (rat-like squirrel?), thought to be extinct some 11 million years ago.

Turns out that this animal is alive and well in Asia. How did we find out? It was being sold for food in the markets of Laos.

Ok, it isn't a nice cute furry thing. Its a rat. But it isn't extinct as was previously thought. I'm still pulling for the discovery of a passenger pigeon or a dodo bird, but don't hold out much hope.

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