Elephant shrew returns from extinction; 6 other animals that aped the rodent's return

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The world’s conservationists have received a rare nugget of good news, as a lost species of rodent was found alive and well in the deserts of Djibouti, East Africa. 

The elephant shrew is biologically neither elephant nor shrew, deriving its name from its distinctive trunk-like nose, and was last seen in Somalia during the 1970s.