--- title: Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found i… — how Mova does on the tests · Biology description: Lesson 190 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 11 tests right, exam 3 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/) / 190 # Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers **Tests:** 6 of 11 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 190 of the biology course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/). Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} «a giant squid washed up, it's the kraken! run!» What is right? - **1.** It is a giant octopus with 20 arms — score 1 - **2.** It is a sea monster that sinks ships — score 3 - **3.** It is a real deep-sea animal; kraken stories may come from squids like it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 11 - **4.** It is a whale's tail — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 11, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 190, line 11: «People once thought giant squids were sea monsters, and the kraken stories may have come from them, but they are real deep-sea animals.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «come» (+5); the same doer «kraken stories» (+3); the same circumstance (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} «giant squid: 8 arms and 2 long tentacles, we found 3 on the beach in a story, how many arms and tentacles» - **1.** 16 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 24 — no support - **3.** 30 — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** 10 — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} «2 saolas, each with 2 long horns and 4 legs, how many horns» - **1.** 4 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** 2 — no support - **3.** 8 — no support - **4.** 12 — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} «they named a gibbon after Luke Skywalker? are u kidding» What is right? - **1.** It was named after a footballer — score 5 - **2.** It was a robot from the film — no support - **3.** No, gibbons cannot have names — no support - **4.** Yes, in 2017 the Skywalker hoolock gibbon was named as a new species — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 190, line 15: «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 t…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «skywalker hoolock gibbon» (+4); the same place «2017» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); the same action «name» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} In King Kong a giant ape is found on a hidden island. What is true about real hidden apes? - **1.** Gorillas live only in films — no support - **2.** All apes were found a thousand years ago — score 2 - **3.** Mountain gorillas were described by scientists only in 1902, though local people knew them — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Giant apes the size of buildings live on islands — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 167, line 11: «Quokkas are small wallabies that live mostly on Rottnest Island and look like they are smiling, and touching or feeding them is against the rules and can be fi…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «rottnest island» (+4); the same action «live» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} «scientists already found every animal, nothing left» What is right? - **1.** Thousands of new kinds are described every year — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **2.** Only about one new animal is found in each century — score 5 - **3.** Right, nothing new is found — no support - **4.** New animals are made in labs — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 190, line 1: «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,…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «describe» (+5); the same property (+3); the same thing acted on «thousands» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} What would happen to an animal that dies out before anyone finds it? - **1.** It would be found anyway in a zoo — score 5 - **2.** Nothing, because all the animals are already known — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** It would come back to life — score 2 - **4.** Scientists would never even know it existed — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 190, line 4: «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.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «know» (+5); the same thing acted on «animal» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} «found a new animal in a museum drawer? ha, sure» What is right? - **1.** It was a toy — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** Museums only keep paintings — no support - **3.** Drawers cannot hold animals — score 1 - **4.** The olinguito was named in 2013 after scientists studied museum skins — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 79, line 4: «Cartoons call the koala a bear, draw kangaroos as boxers that hop forever, and make every Australian animal a cuddly toy; real koalas are not bears, and a cass…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «cuddly toy» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} «a fisherman caught a fish that died with the dinosaurs!» What is right? - **1.** It was a stone fossil, not a fish, dug out of the rocks by the sea — no support - **2.** It was a shark in disguise — no support - **3.** The coelacanth was thought extinct but was caught alive in 1938 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **4.** It was a dinosaur — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 190, line 5: «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 Indo…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «catch» (+5); the same place «1938» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} «stick insects on 1 rock, thought they were extinct, now zoos have thousands» What happened? - **1.** A few were found in 2001 and bred in zoos — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **2.** They were robots — no support - **3.** They flew back by themselves from another island — score 2 - **4.** Scientists made them from fossils — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 190, line 9: «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 b…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+5); the same place «2001» (+3); the same thing acted on «few» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} In Jurassic Park, dinosaurs are brought back. Which real plant from dinosaur times was found alive in 1994? - **1.** The oak trees of an English forest — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The sunflower of the prairies — no support - **3.** The wild dog rose of English hedges — no support - **4.** The Wollemi pine near Sydney — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Identify the circumstance which rendered the capture of a coelacanth in 1938 remarkable. - **1.** The group was believed to have become extinct at the time of the dinosaurs — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It was taken from a freshwater lake in a desert — no support - **3.** It was the largest fish ever caught — no support - **4.** It was found to breathe air exclusively — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the discovery of the olinguito? - **1.** It was discovered in 1902 by explorers in Africa — no support - **2.** It was observed walking in a European capital — no support - **3.** It was identified in 2013 through the examination of skins preserved in a museum — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** It was produced by breeding in captivity — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 190, line 8: «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 ove…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «name» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Ascertain the meaning of the term discovery as applied to animals known beforehand to local inhabitants. - **1.** That scientists described and named the animal for the first time — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **2.** That it was brought from another planet — no support - **3.** That the animal came into existence at that moment and not before — score 2 - **4.** That no person had ever seen it — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 190, line 4: «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.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «name» (+5); the same doer «scientists» (+3); the same thing acted on «animal» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the bone-eating worms. - **1.** They possess sharp teeth for gnawing bones — no support - **2.** They were discovered in the year 1802 — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **3.** They lack mouth and stomach and consume whale bones by means of roots — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** They inhabit desert sand and consume stones — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 190, line 8: «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 ove…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+5); the same property (+3). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/e4/) - ← previous: [189. Masters of camouflage](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/) - next →: [191. Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, ele…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/)