Lazarus Taxa

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Clue	Year of Rediscovery	Answer
Primate found in inaccessible Andes cloud forests	1926	Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
Ancient lobe-finned fish	1938	Coelacanth
Ornamentally-popular Cretaceous conifer	1944	Dawn redwood
Flightless New Zealand rail	1948	Takahe
An entire class of molluscs 'bearing one plate'	1952	Class Monoplacophora
Tiny insectivorous alpine marsupial	1966	Mountain pygmy possum
Canadian fruit rediscovered in a seed-bank	1996	Montreal melon
Nocturnal Australian desert bird	1979	Night parrot
200 million year old trees kept closely guarded	1994	Wollemi pine
European rodent thought extinct after the construction of a hospital	2000	Bavarian pine vole
Ball's Pyramid insect	2001	Lord Howe Island stick insect
Mollusc rediscovered by an aquarium intern	2002	Bermuda land snail
Small burrowing seabird from New Zealand	2003	New Zealand storm petrel
Asian rodent found as meat in a market	2005	Laotian rock rat
1m-long burrowing annelid from Idaho	2010	Giant palouse earthworm
Small perennial New Zealand herb	2015	Pygmy goosefoot
Lake Constance salmonid	2016	Deepwater char
Dingo-like canine caught on camera at 4,200m	2016	New Guinea highland wild dog
Pouched amphibian rediscovered in the Ecuadorian canopy	2019	Horned marsupial frog