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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: 5 Lazarus Species

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Lazarus species were thought to be gone, but had something else in mind. Today we talk about 5 of them.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:34.4

Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

0:36.0

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and this is short stuff.

0:40.0

This is a good one because we are squeezing it in.

0:44.1

Five Lazarus species animals starting now.

0:48.7

Right, if you're wondering what a Lazarus species is, we've talked about it before with the

0:54.4

first entry that we'll talk about in a second.

0:57.5

Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead in the Bible if you believe that stuff.

1:02.6

And a Lazarus species is an organism that has been brought back from extinction or that

1:08.5

we thought rather it was extinct.

1:11.2

Not one that's threatened and we do a good job with it.

1:13.8

But people are like, well, there's no more of those.

1:16.6

And then years later someone's like, oh my gosh.

1:18.5

There's another one of those.

1:20.0

Right.

1:21.0

And we actually did a whole episode on one of these already, the Silicath.

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