World’s Smallest Otter Species Rediscovered In Nepal After 185 Years

World’s Smallest Otter Species Rediscovered In Nepal After 185 Years

These otter-ly adorable carnivores don’t appear to have gone extinct in the country after all.

A Tiny Otter That Vanished From Nepal in the 1800s Reappears » Explorersweb

In the same way you can't prove a negative, "extinction" is always an informed guess. If we haven't seen hide nor hair (sometimes literally) of something for long enough, we have to assume it's not out there anymore. But sometimes we assume wrong. Such was the case with the De Winton’s golden mole, which no one saw between 1936 and 2023, or the giant, elusive "ghost fish" of Cambodia's Mekong River. But finding these never-extinct-in-the-first p…

What We're Reading: Another Chance to Bring Back Sea Otters

Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Let us know what you think at info@reasonstobecheerful.world. Furry friends In 2023, RTBC Contributing Editor Michaela Haas wrote for us about how ongoing efforts to bring back sea otters to California and Oregon could revive struggling ocean ecosystems. Now, according to a High Country News story shared by Editorial Director Rebecca Worby, those efforts are…