The elusive Kawekaweau, a species of gecko, was found more than 100 years after being declared extinct.
The kawekaweau was a brown gecko in New Zealand that hadn’t ever been seen or examined by scientists. It was said to reach up to two feet long, but scientists had no concrete evidence. The closest they had ever got was a biologist who heard a Maori chief describe killing a kawekaweau in 1870.
However, in 1986, researchers came across an unlabeled specimen in the basement of the Natural History Museum in Marseille, France, which was determined to be the kawekaweau.
