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Lazarus species

noun

Etymology

Referring to the Biblical story of Lazarus, who was raised from the dead.

Definitions

  1. A species that was thought to be extinct but has been rediscovered.

  2. A species that disappears from the fossil record only to reappear in much later deposits.

    • The term ‘Lazarus species’ was coined by the palaeontologist David Jablonski to describe a taxon that was thought to have gone extinct during a mass extinction event, but which is found to exist several million years later.

The neighborhood

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