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I do not believe that this belongs as a Lazarus taxon. There has never been a live specimen ever discovered. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.186.62.83 (talk) 06:35, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
I replaced the example given Pink-headed Duck with Takahe. While the Pink-headed Duck may one day be shown to have survived (and let's all hope it has), the possibility that it might does not alone make it a Lazarus taxon. Sabine's Sunbird 15:09, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The coelacanth was believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period until a live specimen turned up off the east coast of South Africa in 1938. ==Samuel Wantman 06:03, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Should the Arakan Forest Turtle be added to the list at the bottom of the article? — Eoghanacht talk 20:22, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Should the black footed ferret be included?
"Laotian Rock Rat (Laonastes aenigmamus), a member of a clade (Diatomyidae) thought to have gone extinct 11 million years ago. Found in 1996."
Shouldn't that be 2006?
Does it qualify? Toscaesque 20:53, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
If someone would like to add more species.... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080428-extinct-plants.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07/0709_020709_cloning.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080312-frog-picture.html http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/search/species_search.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=2159&m=0 http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=4624&m=0 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.199.66.195 (talk) 19:21, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I think the page would benefit from stating when the term was first used.Andycjp (talk) 03:06, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Why is the birds section made into a subsection under reptiles? Birds might have originated in the reptilian line, but they are everywhere today accorded their own family, and no one catalogs or thinks of birds as being reptiles. Myles325a (talk) 10:17, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Read the most wonderful story of Lazarus taxon in Discover Magazine about two years ago, although it wasn't identified there as such. A bit hazy on details but these exceptionally large stick insects were native to some Pacific Islands, and became victims of imported rats and the like. Then a severe storm came and for about 70 years it was thought that they had been completely wiped out. Then, a few years ago, on a very steep cliff, on an unihabited island, on a SINGLE windswept tree, they were found, about 70 of them, the only survivors of that species, deeply inbred, but healthy. Now they have been bred, and are found all over the world, but not in the wild. Article had wonderful photos of these stick insects, and they are massive.
Anyone shed light on this? I'll try to chase it up myself. And are these insects Larazus taxon? Myles325a (talk) 10:25, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Why does the link 'Israel Painted Frog' leads to 'Corsican painted frog' (which was never considered extinct as far as I know) insted of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discoglossus_nigriventer ? Can anyone change it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.199.239.241 (talk) 14:02, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
I believe this species meets the criteria as it was believed extinct and a population was later discovered. It was also first described from a fossil jaw bone from the Pleistocene before the fossil was linked to the extant species. Sources include a National Geographic article about endangered species from 2010 [1] and a peer reviewed article found here: [2] I apologize for not knowing the best way to add these in. Thank you. 50.53.5.147 (talk) 21:34, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
References
(1) I don't understand the sentence, "If the extinction is conclusively found to be total (global or worldwide) and the supplanting species is not a lookalike (an Elvis species), the observational artifact is overcome." Could someone explain it to me and reword it for more clarity?
(2) Could we find a place to mention Lazarus taxa that do not involve extant species? For example, palaeos.com states
Art Carlson (talk) 08:54, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Does it belong here now? Found: Whale thought extinct for 2 million years --71.50.8.53 (talk) 04:07, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
It most definitely belongs there Dunkleosteus77 (talk) 00:10, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
I had added wikilinks to ''Eidothea hardeniana'' as well as ''Eidothea zoexylocarya''. Citations were also added to the Night Cap Oak information. --Tg11297 (talk) 03:53, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
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At the least, the uncited red links should be either cited or removed. And there's a lot of other uncited information where citations might be able to be found in blue-linked species. The article needs more work before more species are added. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 09:02, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
When Dinosauria was first described, it was presumed extinct, until we then found that birds are dinosaurs. Does that make it a Lazarus taxon?Dromeoraptor (talk) 02:41, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
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