Rat-Squirrel

No this isn't a Dilbert character. This is a rediscovered animal in Laos. Over on CNN they are saying that it is reapearing after 11 million years. It is a cool looking little thing, cool in the see it on a website not in my back yard kind of way. It looks as if this isn't the first time scientists have rediscovered an animal. I think this is all very interesting. Do scientists really know enough to say if something is endangered, much less extinct?

(HT: John J. Miller at the Corner)