Unlike my Steve Wilkos show discovery, the following revelation is a great one! My daughter brought home a Weekly Reader from school – you know, it’s like a newspaper for kids. We used to get those when I was in school too, and I really enjoyed them. So we’re sitting in the waiting area of H & R Block waiting for my husband to get our taxes done, and my 9-year-old daughter says to me, “Mom, did you know that they found an animal that they haven’t seen for, like, a really long time? They thought there weren’t any more left in the world! It looks like a Furby!” We talked about extinction for a little bit, and then my daughter said she couldn’t remember what the animal was called or where they found it. So when we got home, she showed me the Weekly Reader, and I found that she was talking about the pygmy tarsier. Scientists believed this type of primate went extinct because no one had seen any specimens for about 70 years, but they recently found two males and a female tarsier alive in Indonesia. The animals each weigh only about 2 oz.!
So yes, it’s safe to say this is a much better discovery for me than the Steve Wilkos show. Here’s hoping the pygmy tarsier can re-populate and once again establish itself as a thriving species! And thanks to the Weekly Reader which has been publishing great kid-oriented articles for decades. These stories help youngsters develop many different kinds of interests in the world around them!
Yes, I remember the Weekly Reader, too. I think we got them on Friday and read them in class about a half-hour before dismissal. thanks T for sharing
The popular reader around here is Time for Kids, or TFK. There are others, but that’s the big one.
Finding new (or new again) life is pretty cool. I think they have found a bunch of water species near the poles recently.