Sunday, May 01, 2005

The First Person Who Makes a "Woody" Joke Can Leave...

A species of ivory-billed woodpecker that was thought extinct for 60 years was recently found to be living deep in the swamp.

Now, I don't expect a lot of people to be too excited by this in particular. (Although you should still give the article a read. It contains an Easter Egg.) The reason a story like this is interesting is that we have an instance in which an animal people have been looking for, in a limited geographic area, managed to stay hidden for 60 years! Sure it was a bird a few inches long, but still...

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