Lazarus species: 13 'extinct' animals found alive
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Cuban solenodon
This strange-looking creature is so rare that only 37 specimens have ever been caught. It was originally discovered in 1861, but no individuals were found from 1890 to 1974. Unusual among mammals in that its saliva is venomous, the Cuban solenodon was most recent sighted in 2003, an event so celebrated that the individual was given a name: Alejandrito.
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Hey isn't this the karate master from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
I respect this living being. I think it is interesting, and merits study and conservation. I respect its life and wish that the world could retain more biodiversity so that there would be no need for internet articles about species on the edge. Yay Knowledge! Yay Education! (Aside from that - I do find it distasteful when people scream "ugly!". Doesn't it seem wrong to have such animosity toward a creature you've never encountered in real life? It's just a picture. I would be more.... More
This animal no good for eating. Please make it extinct again.
WTF is that! oh yeah a cuban solenodon.
love the wierd rat thing that has venomous saliva. i dont get how you have an article about thought to be extinct species and comment about religion and ******* polotics. (1st page) ******* retards no 1 cares about your ******* opinion about that ****.
OK, this is the real chupabraba !!!!!
It look like Scrat from the movie Ice Age but a Scrat that ate a bad nut and caught rabies. whoah weird but yet cool :)
This looks just like the RUS's off of the Princess Bride! How awesome!
Looks like a cross between an oppossum and a rat with a shrew type snout. God had fun designing that beast!
Actually, i think it would be cool to see one of those possibly even meet one. I guess you always have to remember that it's just as afraid of us then we are of them! :) i think its pretty cool! :)
Only it's mother could really love it! lol
great!! so now there will still be 13 more animal species for the white man to wipe out.
Thiz Little Fella Duz Look Ugly Bt who Am I To Judge It?!
Who are you to say it is ugly? God obviously thought it was pretty enough to make. I actually think it is kinda cute!!!!!!!
look at the ******* snout
Looks like we weren't God's first experiment.
.. And this one went extremely wrong.
That is the ugliest thing Ive ever seen. Looks like a Brillo pad gone wrong.
that thing should NOT be living on earth! that is the most disgusting thing i have ever seen!
That looks like a vicious rabid rat
That looks like a vicious rabid rat
looks like it be good on a bbq lol
A face only a mother could love.
I've never seen anything like it in person and I don't think I ever want to! That thing is so creepy! I mean COME ON! Venamous saliva?!? And it has those freaky little eyes! Oh ICK!
It's not a very clear picture, though they do look rather ugly in general they can look better than this photo makes it appear. They aren't the only mammals with venomous saliva either, some species of shrew (their relatives) are known to have a venomous bite as well.
Venomous Saliva!!! Great it's part snake and part possum. Instead of playing dead it plays 'you're dead'!
The venom causes pain at most, it won't kill a person.
we met this thing in CUBA GTMO
He was always chasing a nut. He accidentally caused a flood.
Oh my goodness! What is this?!?!?!?!
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