remember the Furbies?

•

Pygmy tarsier rediscovered on a mountain near Sulawesi, Indonesia 

Since I often write about species that are either very endangered or that have gone extinct, I've been asked are there any species once labeled extinct—either formally or informally—that have been rediscovered.

Yes, my book Ghost Birds is about one such species.

Although the list is short, here's a good article about seven or eight species that have been rediscovered. And just wouldn't you love to see a pygmy tarsier? It's a small, arboreal, nocturnal primate that looks a lot like the must have Christmas toy of the late 1990s: the Furby.


•