Isn’t that a spectacularly ugly beastie? It’s good news: rumors of its extinction were greatly exaggerated.

A living example of an insectivore native to Cuba - but believed for years to extinct - has been found in the island’s eastern mountains, a Cuban news agency reported. 

The discovery of the male insect-eating mammal known as an almiqui (pronounced ahl-mee-KEE) raises hopes “that it will not wind up in the catalog of the irretrievable animals disappearing from the face of the Earth,” Prensa Latina said in reporting the discovery.