--- title: Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: You might think every animal on Earth has already been found, but scientists describe thousa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Strange discoveries: living fossils, h… # Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers Lesson 190 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/0/) — You might think every animal on Earth has already been found, but scientists describe thousands of new kinds every year, mostly insects and small sea animals, and now and then something big. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/1/) — Some discoveries are animals known only as fossils that turn out to be alive, like the coelacanth fish caught in 1938 or the Wollemi pine found in a hidden canyon near Sydney in 1994. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/2/) — Others were hiding in plain sight: the olinguito was found by a scientist looking at old skins in a museum drawer, like finding a new toy at the bottom of the toy box you thought you knew. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/3/) — Often local people already knew the animal; «discovered» means scientists described and named it, and many animals may die out before anyone gets the chance. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/4/) — In 1938 a coelacanth was caught off South Africa, though scientists thought coelacanths had died out with the dinosaurs, and a second kind was found at an Indonesian fish market in 1997. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/5/) — The saola, a rare deer-like animal from remote mountain forests of Vietnam and Laos, was discovered in 1992 and has never been seen by a scientist in the wild. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/6/) — The Wollemi pine, known only from fossils, was found in 1994 in a canyon near Sydney; fewer than a hundred grow in the wild, and their place is kept secret. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/7/) — The olinguito of the Andes cloud forests was named in 2013 after scientists studied museum skins, the first new meat-eating mammal found in the Americas in over thirty years. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/8/) — The Lord Howe Island stick insect was thought extinct for eighty years until a few were found in 2001 on a tall sea rock near the island, and zoos have since bred thousands. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/9/) — The megamouth shark, which lives deep and eats plankton (tiny animals and plants drifting in the sea), was discovered in 1976 off Hawaii, and fewer than three hundred have ever been seen. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/10/) — People once thought giant squids were sea monsters, and the kraken stories may have come from them, but they are real deep-sea animals. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/11/) — Scientists describe thousands of new kinds of animals every year, mostly insects and small sea animals, and many animals may go extinct before being found. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/12/) — Mountain gorillas were known to local people long before scientists first described them in 1902, and now there are about a thousand. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/13/) — Bone-eating worms, discovered on a whale skeleton in 2002, have no mouth or stomach, use roots to eat bones, and help break down whale skeletons. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/14/) — In 2017 the Skywalker hoolock gibbon of China and Myanmar was named as a new species after scientists compared its fur, teeth and songs, and fewer than about two hundred are thought to live in the wild. - ← previous: [Masters of camouflage](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/) - next →: [Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)