Animals Thought to be Extinct Found Alive

Myanmar Jerdon’s babbler



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The Myanmar Jerdon’s babbler hadn’t been seen for more than 70 years when scientists stumbled across one in 2014. When they heard it’s call, they recorded it and played it back, and out popped the little brown bird.

A subspecies of the Jerdon’s babbler found only in Myanmar, the birds have been almost completely wiped out by habitat destruction.