For more than 50 years, the mouse-size Somali sengi was thought to be a lost species. Turns out, it wasn't. Researchers recently spotted the Somali sengi, a kind of elephant shrew, not in Somalia — ...

Scientists working in the Horn of Africa have documented the existence of a remarkable little mammal called the Somali elephant shrew -- or Somali sengi -- for the first time since the 1970s.

An elephant shrew that was considered a "lost species" for more than 50 years has resurfaced. According to researchers in a peer-reviewed study published in PeerJ last week, the Somali sengi was last ...