when a species goes extinct?, what would they call it if they found it again?

Question

who would wear the egg on the face, and has it ever happened?

Answer 1

The same name as before. They would assume it never went extinct, but only unnoticed and simply rediscovered.

Answer 2

Simply Rediscovered

Three snails thought extinct are discovered. Three snails listed as extinct have been rediscovered in the Coosa and Cahaba rivers, the Nature Conservancy announced Tuesday 3 May 2005. The cobble elimia (Elimia vanuxemiana) and the Nodulose Coosa River snail (Elimia lachryma) were rediscovered in the Coosa River and the Cahaba pebblesnail (Clappia cahabensis) in the Cahaba River in Bibb County.

In 2004 the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Campephilus principalis principalis, one of the largest and most spectacular of the world’s woodpeckers, has been rediscovered in North America, in the "Big Woods" region of eastern Arkansas.

Only one mammal, the Bavarian Pine Vole Microtus bavaricus, has been rediscovered over the five years. It had not been seen since 1962, but a small population was found on the German-Austrian border in 2000. Other recent rediscoveries include: the New Zealand Storm Petrel Oceanites maorianus, a seabird rediscovered in 2003; Miller Lake Lamprey Lampetra minima, a fish endemic to a small area in Oregon, United States, and thought to have become Extinct in 1958, but its continued existence was confirmed after thorough surveys in the late 1990s; Gulella thomasseti, an endemic snail from the Seychelles rediscovered in August 2002; the Fabulous Green Sphinx Moth Tinostoma smaragditis from Hawaii

Answer 3

Hmmm.... Consider the ceolcanth--presumed extinct for umpty-dozen million years, but still happily (if slowly) swimming around in deep areas off the coast of, I believe, Africa...

Who wears the egg on the face? No one. The person finding the first living specimen, now, that's the one that wears something: the crown of success, so to speak...

I'm sure there are other examples; this is just the one I know offhand.

They're usually called "living fossils" by the way. That's an unfortunate name, however; I'm accused of being a living fossil all too often.....

Answer 4

Several species once thought extinct have been found still surviving in Nature. The first and most famous is the ceolacanth, Latimeria chalumnae, a primitive marine fish one thought extinct for several million years. I don't understand the second part of your question. There's no reason to believe that a species would be renamed unless it were incorrectly classified in the first place, which is possible.

Answer 5

They just say that it's not extinct after all.

Yes, it's happened a few times. The only examples I can think of are a couple of deep-sea fish that people thought were extinct because they were originally discovered through fossils instead of living examples.

Someone else has already listed a few other species.

Answer 6

The Coelacanth is a fish species that was thought to have died out during the Cretaceous period 65mya. but it was rediscovered in 1938 off the east coast of South Africa, off the Chalumna River.

The opposite of extinct is extant.

When this happens in the fossil record i.e. a species appears to have gone extinct (not seen in strata above a certain point) only to be found again higher up the stratigraphy it is known as a Lazarus taxon.

Answer 7

Well since to be extinct is for it to no longer exist... it really would have never been extinct. There are many creatures still being discovered on Earth today... I wouldn't think anyone would wear egg on their face either... Most people would be exhilarated that the particular species wasn't extinct and would instead focus on how to increase its population...

Answer 8

Thought to be extinct. It has happened, One example the Ivory billed woodpecker and there are others. Google~thought to be extinct and you will see!

Answer 9

Rediscovered.

Or, in the case of the ivory-billed woodpecker, wishful thinking! Sorry, guys, that bird is still extinct.

Answer 10

Ceolocanth