“Fishermen around Scotland are catching increasing numbers of flapper skate, suggesting that the endangered fish is recovering in the area,” notes The Doomslayer.
The BBC reports:
Numbers of critically-endangered flapper skate are beginning to recover in Scotland, new research has suggested.
The study, conducted by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, involved interviews with commercial fishers from all over Scotland, who reported a significant increase in flapper skate caught while fishing for other species over the past four years.
Half of those interviewed had seen them daily.
The North American right whale population is finally rebounding.
An endangered flat-headed cat was recently discovered.
A rare flightless grasshopper was recently found in Virginia, where such grasshoppers had not been seen for 79 years.
Snub-nosed monkeys are making a comeback in China.
