The Lost Shark is only known from ONE specimen collected in Southeast Asia and may already be extinct due to habitat degradation and overfishing in the region.
>>5134931Tufted ground squirrel, only filmed/photographed a few times
>>5134931The white-eyed river martin. Formerly known from only one location where they were wintering, they disappeared from there and haven't been seen since.Hell, we don't even know if they actually bred in Thailand to begin with or if it's just somewhere else in hiding.
>>5134931I saw this big ass rat in my house this one time and haven't seen it since. Bastard's probably still hiding somewhere chewing my walls or whatever.
>>5134931Gigarcanum, the largest discovered gecko species, known only from a single taxidermed specimen
>>5135034was probably very tasty if I had to guess
>>5135034Given that we ony have the one taxidermied specimen and nothing else to go off of, I can't help but wonder what this Gecko's maximum size was.
>>5135180The only recent development this fucker had is DNA testing managed to suggest that it was actually New Caledonian, or at least, all of it's closest relatives are New Caledonian and it somehow got to New Zealand from there.
>>5135192>>5135180>>5135034Idk why but that guy looks stoned out of his mind in that pic, weird aura from it in general
>>5135183Not rare boyo
>>5134931Eastwood's long-tailed seps
>>5134931Arunachal pit viper
>>5134931Bullneck seahorse
>>5135434Ruby seadragon
>>5134931Spade-toothed whale
>>5134931Philippine angelshark
>>5134931The Aquatic Salamander (Pseudoeurycea aquatica)
>>5134931the American pocket shark
>>5134931the Red Tigrina
>>5134931Namdapha flying squirrel
>>5134957This looks AI.
>>5135457That's just what it looks like. Also a couple other fun facts:>Locals call it the vampire squirrel and claim it kills deer by biting their jugular and letting them bleed out.>It has the largest tail to body size ratio of all mammals.
>>5134931Montane Monkey-Faced Bat, only spotted once, no known photographs, thought it reportedly looks similar to the Fijian Monkey-Faced Bat
>>5134931the Wondiwoi tree-kangaroo
>>5134931Cuban solenodon, closely related to moles and shrews but its own family, one of the few venomous mammals.
>>5134931the payangko, or Attenborough's long-beaked echidna
>>5135562more pics
>>5135521What does its face look like?
>>5134931Miss Waldron's red colobus monkey. There are some taxidermed museum specimens, but the photos online are illustrations, fakes, or different red colobus species.
>>5134931the Ili pika, an extremely rare large-eared pika species from China
>>5134931Jackson's climbing salamander
>>5134931Voeltzkow's chameleon
>>5134931The Pink-headed duck
>>5134931Silver-backed chevrotain
Meh. If they're so rare people see them only once a century they can't be all that ecologically important. Most of these are probably subspecies or locality autism anyway. Not really worth disrupting people's livelihoods over so there can be a slightly different salamander that lives 10' higher than the other nearly identical salamander it's closely related to to the point interbreeding is a concern imho.
>>5135577Most of these had their genome analyzed and were confirmed different species, retard. Sorry but Shekelberg Industries aren't entitled to log, pollute, and despoil the entire planet in the name of "development."
>>5135440Love these guys. They really could fit in your pocket.
>>5134931Himalayan quail:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKXWC54grG8Spotted green pigeon:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFTIjN6ncL4Smooth handfish:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FASsVx17wHs
>>5135572https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exen2NIb_bwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBVjnZ1giuQ
>>5135577Dumbass."Just consider where the Blanco blind salamander lives: deep underground in the Edwards Aquifer, one of the least accessible places on Earth. The aquifer is a complex underground structure made of caverns and porous rock that stretches more than 4,000 square miles across south-central Texas. It boasts a remarkable amount of life, including crustaceans, a handful of eyeless salamanders, and blind fish (one of which is also a lost species). It’s also a vital resource for the region, providing drinking water for nearly 2 million Texans.More than anything, finding the Blanco blind salamander would be a reason to be hopeful. The species is not only an indicator of water quality, but it’s also likely the top predator in the aquifer. “They’re the great white sharks of their ecosystem,” Gluesenkamp said. Knowing they’re alive and well would mean the aquifer - on which so many people and other species depend - is more or less healthy.These animals are also just metal and a reminder that we share our planet with some seriously cool critters. Blanco blind salamanders might not have eyes, but they do have motion-sensing organs that help them find food. They have no pigment in their skin. And they’re experts at conserving energy, spending most of their time in complete stillness.The Blanco blind salamander is one of more than 2,000 kinds of animals, plants, and fungi worldwide that scientists call “lost species.” Unlike the more widely known categories of endangered and threatened — which describe wildlife at risk of extinction — the category “lost” refers to species that scientists haven’t seen for at least a decade or, by other definitions, more than 50 years."
>>5134931ILIN ISLAND CLOUDRUNNERhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SciBiZxKyw
>>5134931Scarlet Harlequin Toad (Atelopus sorianoi)
>>5135622Borneo Rainbow Toad
>>5135560Between the Solenodons and the extinct Nesophontes, why did the Caribbean have so many weird species of shrews?
