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Extinct’ bum breathing turtle back

Australia's that kind of place.

Found via hedgegoth

Comments

[lizardling.livejournal.com]

Weeeird. But I'm confused. The last part of the article says they're listed as endangered and the females can get up to five kg. You can't have done that if they only *just* found a live male.

Although, on reflection, they could have done that from the fossil record. But it still sounds odd to me, declaring something endangered when you've just found a previously-thought-to-be-extinct species member. To me, endangered means that it's still got a fighting chance. :/