Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Creatures People Didn’t Think Existed

By: melin

melin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:39:47 +0000

then if there is something in the soil why not put the soil in the container and let the Giant Gippsland Earthworm go into it while transporting it??

By: Fritz

Fritz — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:40:32 +0000

The picture of the Bermuda Petrel is incorrect, it shows a Tern of some kind.

By: alice

alice — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:43:00 +0000

“Only 224 birds are known to exist now – it was 225, but a Department of Conservation employee accidentally shot one.”

I love irony.

By: Michael James

Michael James — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:37:09 +0000

What about the Liger?

By: gibson8or

gibson8or — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:11:18 +0000

I read somewhere (possibly on Mentalfloss)that the last Tasmanian Tiger died in the zoo after it was left out at night, and died of exposure. That seems awfully careless of the zookeepers.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:51:35 +0000

I was noticing that a lot of these animals have an extremely small number of existing specimens, and it brought to mind another flightless bird, the kakapo.
kakaporecovery.org.nz/kakapointro.html
There’s only 91 of them!

They kind of remind me of those birds from Final Fantasy, but a bit smaller.

By: Mangesh

Mangesh — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:24:04 +0000

@Jef: Thanks! We went through and added the pics on yours (and others suggestions). Hope this helps…

By: Debbie

Debbie — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:28:39 +0000

Recently (2005), they also found that the ivory-billed woodpecker wasn’t extinct:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/28/woodpecker/

By: Jef

Jef — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:25:30 +0000

Really cool post. Just think you should have had more photos. I went to google to see what some of these things were.

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:48:33 +0000

Platypus are monotremes, a kind of mammal that does lay eggs, there are only a few in the monotreme family. The echidna (a bit like a huge hedgehog) is another member.

As another person said, the Gippsland Earthworm is far larger than the one mentioned in this article. A useless fact for you on them, they have tried to move specimens of this worm to other places to do research etc on them, and they always die.

It is believed that there is something in the soil where they live that keeps them alive.