For over a century the La Gomera giant lizard (Gallotia bravoana) was thought to be extinct.

How say'st thou that he lied? Sirs, it is true I with this craven beggarly companion — Of whose accompliceship to do the deed, And not the deed itself, I speak with shame — I with this caitiff truly did conspire, For good and ample reasons, to remove Sir Walter D'Arlon from this troublesome world.

The stars of Fifty Years of Romance and Research include a native Rob Roy of Sarawak, Hose's adoring wife Poppy, and a mispreserved giant orangutan head she valiantly delivered to Cambridge's Dr. Duckworth.

The problem getting to all these remote customers is still the last mile, no matter how far they live from the switch.