Scientists rediscover an insect thought to be extinct for 80 years

My favorite "extinct" animal found again (also 80 years!):

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/02/24/147367644/s...

Wikipedia has a whole page of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_taxon

FTA: “Long believed to be extinct on the main island of Lord Howe Island”

Reading that, I thought this was about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryococelus_australis (“Dryococelus australis, commonly known as the Lord Howe Island stick insect or tree lobster, is a species of stick insect that lives on the Lord Howe Island Group. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Dryococelus. Thought to be extinct by 1920, it was rediscovered in 2001”

This is a different species, though, and unlike the stick insect, which was rediscovered on Ball’s pyramid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%27s_Pyramid) it wasn’t extinct on the island.

Guess there's hope for the Tassie tiger!

I currently keep three cockroach species, mostly to feed other animals. There's actually a hobby around collecting cockroach species. Please refrain from obvious jokes about accidentally "keeping" cockroaches.

"Life finds a way."

> cockroach

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could..."

The Lord is rising up from under the bloodwood tree,

He gave new life to you, the Wood-feeding cockroachy,

Sent down his angels with feathery antennae,

Who emerged to say the roaches aren't lost to history,

'Scending tree bark stairs.

Hey la, hey la, the roaches are back.

'Scending tree bark stairs.

Hey la, hey la, the roaches are back!

>Thought to Be Extinct for 80 Years

Let's hope Thought will return after those 80 years...