Extinct fish mysteriously return

[The Helper]

In what a biologist is calling "a fisheries Jurassic Park," Alouette River sockeye salmon have returned to spawn nearly 80 years after the original Alouette run became extinct.

Sockeye have not been seen in the Alouette, which runs from Golden Ears Provincial Park, north of Maple Ridge, into the Pitt River, since a few years after a hydroelectric dam and reservoir were built on the river in the 1920s.

After the dam was completed in 1926, the sockeye were unable to reach their spawning grounds and the Alouette run gradually disappeared. The last sockeye were reported in 1931.

But last Wednesday, 20 sockeye carcasses and six live fish were found at the foot of the dam by a BC Hydro employee.

Read the whole story here.

 

[Hero]

Interesting...I wonder if everything else that is extinct will come back

 

[Tonks]

People are going to claim that it's evolution. That they evolved, again, from the same species they were before.

 

[Prometheus]

20 sockeye carcasses

I ROFLed when I read that.
Its like
"Hey, look, Sockeye!"
"Yea, lets leave the dam up and watch as they die so we can study them!"

 

[Pineapple]

Interesting...I wonder if everything else that is extinct will come back

If they were extinct they wouldn't come back. Its hard for us to claim fish or other aquatic animals are extinect becuase we can't check the waters like we can the land.