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Experts thrilled after rediscovering rare species last seen nearly 80 years ago: 'No living person has … experience with this species'
This return is a sign of an increasingly healthy ecosystem. Experts thrilled after rediscovering rare species last seen ...
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Biologist Spots Rare, Flightless Grasshopper in Virginia for the First Time in Nearly 80 Years
But Andrew Rapp, a field zoologist with the department’s Natural Heritage Program, recently captured an adult female in the northwest part of Virginia—proof that the elusive species has not ...
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Flightless species suspected of being extinct rediscovered in Virginia 80 years later
A Virginia zoologist caught a small, flightless grasshopper that hadn’t been officially documented since 1946. Photo from Demure Storyteller via Unsplash Zoologist Andrew Rapp spent four hours ...