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Re:In memory of the Christmas Island shrew by culi on Saturday October 25, 2025 @10:26PM (#45708654)
> Yet it was not quite gone. Half a century later, in 1958, two shrews appeared as bulldozers tore into the forest for phosphate mining. They were seen, released, and forgotten.

I wonder how many thought-to-be-extinct species were not seen before it was too late. It's also wild that they were simply released instead of being moved to captivity to try to breed

Re:In memory of the Christmas Island shrew by ornornor on Sunday October 26, 2025 @06:05AM (#45710503)
I guess we didn’t care about conservation in 1958 like we do now.