“Just to think this bird made it into the 21st century gives me chills,” he said. “It’s like a funeral shroud has been pulled back, giving us a glimpse of a living bird, rising Lazarus-like from the grave.”

it might just be that i’m a little emotional right now, or it’s just that i find geeks of all stripes totally enchanting, but the NY Times piece about the rediscovery of a woodpecker everyone thought was extinct nearly made me cry.