[JimSEA]

To reappear after 11 million years is more exciting than if the rodent really had been a new species

This from a supposedly well educated naturalist!!! No reappearance or discovery involved. Western scientists have just seen it for this first time alive and not as a fossil. The local folk have a name and (likely thought the article doesn't say so) recipes for this animal.

[Ichneumon]

[To reappear after 11 million years is more exciting than if the rodent really had been a new species]

This from a supposedly well educated naturalist!!! No reappearance or discovery involved.

Oh, relax -- you know what he means.