Natural History Wanderings

NPR reports

Scientists have used sniffer dogs and DNA analysis to rediscover a group of De Winton’s golden moles, a seemingly-extinct species that hadn’t been seen in nearly 90 years.

The De Winton’s Golden mole was last spotted in 1936. But with the help of a mole-sniffing dog and new environmental DNA analysis, researchers are taking it off the most wanted lost species list.

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