This stuff is from the New York Times. The black-browed babbler is a beautiful creature, and thank goodness it isn't extinct.

M. Suranto

9. What might be Asia’s longest-missing bird just came out of hiding.

For the first time in 170 years, the black-browed babbler was found in an Indonesian forest. Ornithologists first described the bird around 1850, after the one and only known specimen of the species was collected. Then the enigmatic bird disappeared.

One conservationist said the discovery was “as shocking as rediscovering the passenger pigeon or Carolina parakeet.”

In other discoveries, a team of scientists reconstructed the outer and middle ear of Neanderthals and concluded that they listened to the world much like we do, adding a new piece to the puzzle of whether early humans could speak.