At the beginning of the 20th century, scientists and laymen alike
appear to have been peculiarly confident that the world had been
thoroughly explored and most of its creatures named and documented.
Few, if any, large animals still awaited discovery. The scientific
unveiling of the giraffe-like okapi in 1901 was one of the earliest
of this century's discoveries to shake this belief. But many
consider it to be the last great find, and view the rediscovery of
extinct animals to be as likely as the alchemic conversion of iron
into gold. Since 1901, however, a whole host of new and
rediscovered creatures has turned up to contradict these
views-including a giant 7-ft-long forest hog from Africa, a
colossal Indonesian monitor lizard called the Komodo dragon, the
lobe-finned coelacanth fish resurrected from 64 million years of
supposed extinction, the incredible megamouth shark, deep-sea
tube-dwelling worms over 8 ft tall with huge red tentacles
resembling strange alien flowers, plus the extraordinary Vu Quang
ox and giant barking deer both discovered in Vietnam during the
1990s. And discoveries continue to be made today, in the 21st
century-ranging diversely and dramatically from giant peccaries and
zombie worms to an entire new suborder of insects known as the
gladiators, a veritable jungle of new monkeys, and an extraordinary
chameleonesque snake. And nor can we possibly forget the
sensational rediscovery in North America of the near-legendary,
supposedly long-extinct ivory-billed woodpecker. The Encyclopaedia
of New and Rediscovered Animals is the third, wholly-updated
edition of the very first-and still the definitive-book to be
devoted to the spectacular zoological discoveries and equally
amazing rediscoveries of the 20th century, which attracted
international acclaim and exemplary reviews following its original
publication in 1993 (when it was entitled The Lost Ark), and its
subsequent republication in 2002 as an updated, greatly-expanded
second edition (entitled The New Zoo). This latest edition also
contains an in-depth survey of the 21st century's most celebrated
discoveries and rediscoveries made during its first decade, plus an
exhaustive, significantly-increased bibliography, as well as the
only comprehensive collection of colour and b/w illustrations of
these spectacular animal species ever published (including new,
previously-unpublished photographs, and several exclusive,
specially-commissioned full-colour paintings). Unquestionably, The
Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals provides good reason
indeed for believing that our world continues to holds many more
animal surprises in store for future revelation.
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