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The fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox) is a smaller relative of C. spelea that still survives.. Although some morphological differences between the two fossa species have been described, [17] these may be allometric (growth-related), and in their 1986 Mammalian Species account of the fossa, Michael Köhncke and Klaus Leonhardt wrote that the two were morphologically identical. [18]
It contains the living fossa and its larger, recently extinct relative, the giant fossa. [1] [2] The fossas are the largest of Madagascar's mammalian carnivores.
An extinct relative of the fossa was described in 1902 from subfossil remains and recognized as a separate species, Cryptoprocta spelea, in 1935. This species was larger than the living fossa (with a body mass estimate roughly twice as great), but otherwise similar.
The extinct giant fossa (Cryptoprocta spelea) had a body mass in range from 17 kg (37 lb) [196] to 20 kg (44 lb), [197] much larger than the modern fossa weighs (up to 8.6 kg (19 lb) for adult males [198]).
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Cryptoprocta spelea, the giant fossa, is an extinct species from Madagascar in the family Eupleridae. Most closely related to the mongooses, the family includes all of Madagascar's carnivorans. The giant fossa was first described in 1902, and in 1935 was recognized as a separate species from its closest relative, the living fossa (Cryptoprocta ...
Scientists have reported that a rare species of giant tortoise thought to have died out more than a century ago is not in fact extinct. Genetic research has shown that a female specimen discovered ...
Some mammals declared as extinct may very well reappear. [1] For example, a study found that 36% of purported mammalian extinction had been resolved, while the rest either had validity issues (insufficient evidence) or had been rediscovered. [3] As of December 2015, the IUCN listed 30 mammalian species as "critically endangered (possibly ...