Imagine walking up to an animal that science once wrote off as gone forever — only to find it staring right back at you. From the rediscovery of the coelacanth, a giant fish thought to have vanished with the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, to other creatures that shocked the world by reappearing after being labeled extinct, these encounters feel like stepping into a time machine. Each sighting rewrites what we thought we knew about life on Earth and proves that nature still has some wild surprises in store. Get ready to meet the “Lazarus species” — animals that returned from the extinct. Credit: Radioactive / StudioCanal Michaelsmith: By Nobel Prize website, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17673643 Extinct or Alive / Hot Snakes Media CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0: coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae: By Khonsari R, Seppala M, Pradel A, Dutel H, Clement G, Lebedev O, Ghafoor S, Rothova M, Tucker A, Maisey J, Fan C, Kawasaki M, Ohazama A, Tafforeau P, Franco B, Helms J, Haycraft C, David A, Janvier P, Cobourne M, Sharpe P – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3635870/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The-buccohypophyseal-canal-is-an-ancestral-vert[…]t-maintained-by-modulation-in-sonic-1741-7007-11-27-S2.ogv CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/: Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer: By PhyloDom, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29207478 Stuffed Coelacanthe: By Lionel Allorge, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13204681 Tree-kangaroos: By Postdlf, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendrolagus_matschiei_at_the_Bronx_Zoo_01.ogv CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0: Latimeria: By Bogdanov-62, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70279162 Latimeria chalumnae: By MichalPL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=114799533 Coelacanth indet: By Ghedoghedo, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64142269 Matschie's tree-kangaroo: By Hectonichus, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dendrolagus_matschiei_-_Matschie%27s_tree-kangaroo.webm Phylogenetic Tree of Rodentia: By M ralser, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79113946 CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0: Coelacanth: By Bruce A.S. Henderson – Fraser, Michael D.; Henderson, Bruce A.S.; Carstens, Pieter B.; Fraser, Alan D.; Henderson, Benjamin S.; Dukes, Marc D.; Bruton, Michael N. (26 March 2020). "Live coelacanth discovered off the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, South Africa". South African Journal of Science. 116 (3/4 March/April 2020). doi:10.17159/sajs.2020/7806, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=88732486 CC BY 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5: Laonastes aenigmamus: By Jean-Pierre Hugot – doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048145, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40373147 Animation is created by Bright Side. —————————————————————————————- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/ Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz —————————————————————————————- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru
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