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Aye, definitely. I wonder how our documentation techniques will continue to evolve themselves, and how that will change our concept and ability to view a species and speciation in relation to time.

Yeah, it seems like they keep turning up. As you mentioned, many of them were recognized by local groups for a very long time, but they don't become 'scientifically' recognized until later. What seems to be realy hard is identifying newly forming species. There is the really recent...

My personal favorite 'living fossil' is this dude, the Laotian rock rat. Not as big as a mammoth, but totally needs to be my recently-not-actually-extinct pet.

DC: I don't think the Wiki blurb even mentions it. Most of that information came from a book written by a...I think he was a mountain climber interested in tracking the yeti. I am trying to find it. But basically, he isn't what I'd call a reliable source, and I'd have to look into it...

Aquaeyes: Cool! But, it was the Yeti mention that really caught my interest. I'm not at all sure about the truth of the following, but, I've *read* that Adolf Hitler sent this man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938%E2%80%931939_German_expedition_to_Tibet to Tibet, with some talk that Hitler...