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1. on September 30, 2010 at 9:05 pm bill

   This may answer it:

   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1315964/One-extinct-animals-turn-again.html

   Maybe things aren’t so bad afterall.

   
   
   • on September 30, 2010 at 9:07 pm retrieverman

     It doesn’t answer this question, but I saw that today and I was amazed.

     Am amazing thing to think that these extinct species are just really rare.

     
     
2. on September 30, 2010 at 9:13 pm leashedForLife

   looks like a marsupial species, and the hands remind me of nocturnal arboreals –
   similar to a bushbaby or aye-aye.
   – t

   
   
   • on September 30, 2010 at 9:14 pm retrieverman

     The hands are the key to the identity.

     
     
3. on September 30, 2010 at 9:36 pm leashedForLife

   the pelage reminds me of a water-opossum [DIDELPHIDAE]
   in color + pattern, but the feet are all wrong –
   the water-opossum has claws + feet are WEBBED distinctly.

   this one has short nails that do not appear to project beyond the toe-pads.
   hmmm…

   
   
4. on September 30, 2010 at 10:54 pm Jess

   South American water opossum, Chironectes minimus.

   
   
5. on October 1, 2010 at 12:26 am Penin kulmilla

   Wad? Looks like the opossum u just showed us… Or, other words, may I say, some curious American furry, naked tail marten -species.

   
   
6. on October 1, 2010 at 12:27 am Penin kulmilla

   can I change? It is a rat.

   
   
7. on October 1, 2010 at 7:19 am Laura

   It looks like somebody cut out some feet and pasted them on a raccoon picture.

   
   
   • on October 1, 2010 at 11:42 am leashedForLife

     nah… the face is wrongly-shaped, tail is mostly nude,
     body a lot less robust; coons are distinctly teardrop shaped with narrow fronts + broad butts, their strong hindquarters are taller than their skinny shoulders, and their paws are more handlike – and dark in color, too.

     the knobby knuckles, spatulate finger-pads and light color are all strong differences from the tapering, dexterous and strong paws of a coon.
     these resemble a mammalian knock-off of a gecko…
     but with smaller toe-pads.

     still think this is a possum… or relative thereof.
     strange beast,
     – terry

     
     
8. on October 1, 2010 at 12:29 pm willie westfall

   Are you making fun of the fact that I lost my thumbs
   during early childhood?

   The animal is a coon ass turkey, commonly found in
   the swaps in La.

   
   
9. on October 1, 2010 at 11:45 pm Russell Constable

   Could it be a grey four eyed opossum (Philander opossum) Scottie? Muzzle looks a little short but that’s my best guess!

   
   
10. on October 2, 2010 at 8:35 am Russell Constable

    That muzzle was bugging me and then i paid a bit more attention to the saddle like markings on its back so my updated guess is water opossum. Chironectes minimus….if this is wrong my next guess is Willie in a racoon skin suit!

    
    
11. on October 2, 2010 at 12:34 pm Camera Trap Codger

    Isn’t that the Michael Phelps of possumdom?

    
    
12. on October 2, 2010 at 9:06 pm Russell Constable

    Complete with waterproof pouch I recall CTC!

    
    

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