Meet Ardi.

Our 4.4-million-year-old (possibly direct) ancestor.

Cute things that still walk the face of the earth.

The pygmy tarsier is not extinct:



Nor is the Waitaha penguin:



IN THE COMMENTS: mandrewa said:

Unfortunately the Waitaha penguin is extinct. That Associated Press article is titled oddly. If you read it closely, what has been "found" is the bones of this species. It's a new species of penguin, prior to this time unknown, and it was alive just 600 some years ago, but it is nonetheless extinct.

Oh, no! At least we've still got the pygmy tarsier to cuddle.