After 30 years, the San Quintin kangaroo rat was rediscovered in the Valle Tranquilo and Monte Ceniza nature reserves in Mexico.
This animal had not been seen since 1986 and was held as an example of a modern extinction due to agricultural conversion.
The kangaroo rat was listed as endangered, and possibly extinct, by the Mexican government in 1994.
Despite active searches and monitoring over the years, there had been no sign of the animal until this past summer, when Scott Tremor and research associate Sula Vanderplank were in the field conducting routine monitoring of small mammal communities in San Quintin.
They couldn’t believe their eyes when not one,…
