Tiny elephant shrew resurfaces after more than 50 years on ‘lost species’ list

For more than 50 years, the mouse-sized Somali sengi was thought to be a lost species. Turns out, it wasn’t. The Somali sengi — a kind of elephant shrew — was recently spotted by researchers not in Somalia, but in neighboring Djibouti. “It’s a teeny, tiny relative of an aardvark and an elephant,….


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