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In 2017, De Winton's golden mole was listed among the 25 "most wanted lost" species for Re:wild's "Search for Lost Species" initiative, having not been seen since 1937. [6] [7] De Winton's golden mole was rediscovered in 2023 using data and samples from surveys conducted in 2021, including environmental DNA, burrow traces, and sniffer dogs. The ...
Researchers say they’ve rediscovered the De Winton’s golden mole, which has been thought lost since it was last seen in 1937. Researchers say they’ve rediscovered the De Winton’s golden ...
The De Winton's golden mole -- a small, blind burrower with “super-hearing powers” that eats insects -- was found to be still alive on a beach in Port Nolloth on the west coast of South Africa ...
Amblysomus [1] (also narrow-headed golden mole or South African golden mole) is a genus of the golden mole family, Chrysochloridae, [2] comprising five species of the small, insect-eating, burrowing mammals endemic to Southern Africa. All five species can be found in South Africa and some are also found in Eswatini and Lesotho. [3]
Cuban solenodon (Atopogale cubana), thought to have been extinct until a live specimen was found in 2003. De Winton's golden mole (Cryptochloris wintoni), last seen in western South Africa in 1937 until being rediscovered in 2023. [41] Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat, assumed extinct after discovery in 1974, but rediscovered in 2012.
Scientists are making a mountain out of a mole hill after finding a rare breed of sightless burrowing mammal not seen for the better part of a century. Endangered blind sand mole rediscovered in ...
Cryptochloris [1] is a genus of golden moles, containing the two species De Winton's golden mole (Cryptochloris wintoni) and Van Zyl's golden mole (Cryptochloris zyli).
A blind mole that glides through sand has been spotted in South Africa, 87 years after wildlife experts feared it had gone extinct.