Researchers stunned after rediscovering thought-to-be-extinct 'living fossil' in natural park: 'An exceptional amount of force was required'

Researchers stunned after rediscovering thought-to-be-extinct 'living fossil' in natural park: 'An exceptional amount of force was required'

The Miami Herald has reported some good evolutionary news about Cape Verde. A once-declared-extinct insect has been found throughout the mountains on one of its islands. The archipelago nation sits 300 miles off the coast of West Africa and boasts over 2,000 species of known terrestrial fauna, per Visit Santo Antão. Among that number is a new species of grasshopper called a "living fossil" — the Eyprepocprifas insularis or the Monte Gordo grassh…