Most Wanted!
Missing and presumed extinct and on Re-wild conservation group’s "most wanted lost species” list….
A small, blind burrower with iridescent golden fur, super-hearing, and the ability to almost “swim” through the sand.
After a 3 year search they found the De Winton's golden mole (not actually a mole). It was the first time it’s been seen in over 80 years.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/still-alive-golden-mole-not-seen-for-80-years-and-presumed-extinct-is-found-again-in-south-africa-1.6667054
Photograph by Craig R. Jackson, CC BY 4.0.
John W. Wilson, Richard B. Primack: "Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa", Chapter 3: "What is Biodiversity?", Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, UK, 2019, ISBN: 978-1-78374-751-1, pp. 61–90, here p. 76, Figure Figure 3.C (Top), DOI: [https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0177], License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). Original URL of the image: [https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0177/image/Fig\_3.B2\_Jackson-2.png]