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14 Extinct Animals That Were Rediscovered

Call them victims of the dire and pre-emptive business of declaring species extinct in this day and age, but the animals featured in BuzzFeed’s listicle of 14 Extinct Animals That Were Rediscovered have basically come back from beyond the grave. Perhaps the most extreme case of this is the Coelacanth (pictured below), a semi-amphibeous fish thing that was thought to have gone extinct some 65 million years ago, but was rediscovered in 1938 in the Indian Ocean, where an isolated population of this evolutionary link between fish and reptiles continues to thrive.

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