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Podcast: Animals we thought were lost

Hey Earth Rangers, have you ever thought you lost something, only to have it turn up somewhere unexpected later? Can you believe that this happens to scientists with entire species sometimes? In today’s episode Emma talks about “Lazarus taxon”, animals that disappear from the fossil record for a while, but appear later because they weren’t actually extinct in the first place. She also talks to a real-life dino-expert to see if any dinosaurs survived and live with us today (and the answer might surprise you…)

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