The Emerald Buddha reappeared in a chance discovery in Chiang Rai in 1434, after a lightning storm struck a temple.

In some cases, endangered species may even be deliberately killed ( shooting, shoveling, and shutting up ) to avoid discovery.

The discovery of the purple fringeless orchid, an endangered species, within the remediation site complicated the project.

Furthermore, one of the pine forests in Monterey, California, was the discovery site for Hickman's potentilla, an endangered species.

Mahogany Gliders are endangered, and so uncommon that they weren't seen for more than a hundred years after their original discovery in 1883.

Another environmental issue involving the springs and the pool emerged with the discovery of the Barton Springs salamander, a federally listed endangered or threatened species which only exists in the pool and a few surrounding environs.

Some hope has been given to this highly endangered species by the discovery in 2003 of a population of several thousand birds in southern Guyana, 1000 km from any previously known colony.

In the early 1990s, an additional 9, 000 acres was added to the reserve after the discovery of the endangered Stephens kangaroo rat ( Dipodomys stephensi ) in the area.

According to Mike Dash, a Welsh historian, few scientists doubt there are thousands of unknown animals, particularly invertebrates, awaiting discovery ; however, cryptozoologists are largely uninterested in researching and cataloging newly-discovered species of ants or beetles, instead focusing their efforts towards " more elusive " creatures that have often defied decades of work aimed at confirming their existence.

Evidence suggests a third release in 1938, consisting of toads being used for human pregnancy tests — many species of toad were found to be effective for this task, and were employed for about 20 years after the discovery was announced in 1948.

The tests using toads were faster than those employing mammals ; the toads were easier to raise, and, although the initial 1948 discovery employed Bufo arenarum for the tests, it soon became clear that a variety of anuran species were suitable, including the cane toad.

The extinction of the Dodo within only about a century of its discovery called attention to the previously unrecognised problem of human involvement in the disappearance of entire species.

The first major challenge to conventional eugenics based upon genetic inheritance was made in 1915 by Thomas Hunt Morgan, who demonstrated the event of genetic mutation occurring outside of inheritance involving the discovery of the hatching of a fruit fly with white eyes from a family and ancestry of the red-eyed Drosophila melanogaster species of fruit fly.

Despite the 1891 discovery by Eugène Dubois of what is now called Homo erectus at Trinil, Java, it was only in the 1920s when such fossils were discovered in Africa, that intermediate species began to accumulate.

Prior to this discovery, biologists had been largely unable to establish a family tree of cats from the fossil record because the fossils of different cat species all look very much alike, differing primarily in size.

The discovery and description of this species is credited to both Mary and Louis Leakey, who found fossils in Tanzania, East Africa, between 1962 and 1964.

These postulates were first used in the discovery that Mycobacteria species cause tuberculosis.

Often genetic and biochemical tests are necessary to confirm the discovery of a new species.

Numerous species have been assigned to Pterodactylus in the years since its discovery.

In 2007, paleontologists reported the discovery of quill knobs on a well-preserved Velociraptor mongoliensis forearm from Mongolia, confirming the presence of feathers in this species.

** Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya ; he names the species Kenyapithecus africanus.

Research in biosalinity includes studies of the biochemical and physiological mechanisms of salt tolerance in plants, breeding and selection for salt tolerance ( halotolerance ), discovery of periods in a crop plant's life cycle when it may be less sensitive to salt, use of saline irrigation water to increase desirable traits ( such as sugar concentration in a fruit ) or to control the ripening process, study of the interaction between salinity and soil properties, and development of naturally salt-tolerant plant species ( halophytes ) into useful agricultural crops.

* Extensive information on rhododendron species: the history of their discovery, botanical details, toxicity, classification, cultural conditions, care for common problems, and suggestions for companion plants by Steve Henning.

Discovery of the hydrothermal vents in the eastern Pacific Ocean was quickly followed by the discovery and description of new vestimentiferan tubeworm species.

The discovery of a species still living, when they were believed to have gone extinct 65 million years previously, makes the coelacanth the best-known example of a Lazarus taxon, a species that seems to have disappeared from the fossil record only to reappear much later.

Much more publicity was given to the " discovery " by Augustus T. Dowd of the Calaveras Grove in 1852, and this is commonly cited as the species ' discovery.

Since 2002, a tremendous amount of activity by Filipino scientists has resulted in the discovery and naming several new species of Rafflesia.

Numerous species are very poorly known, the Fiji Petrel has only been seen a handful of times since its discovery and the breeding colonies of the New Zealand Storm Petrel, Hornby's Storm Petrel and Heinroth's Shearwater have never been located.

Parallel analysis of the genome and the proteome facilitates discovery of post-translational modifications and proteolytic events, especially when comparing multiple species ( comparative proteogenomics ).

It is generally considered that most, if not all, species of moa died out due to over-hunting by the Māori, by 1400AD, and habitat decline before European discovery and settlement.

Some, like the Red Owl, have barely been seen or studied since their discovery, in contrast to the Common Barn Owl, which is one of the best known owl species in the world.

The sequence of events leading to his important discovery still remains ambiguous but it seems that one of the advanced students at the university related that the first direct event that led to the publication of Oersted's discovery occurred during a private lecture made before a group of other advanced students in the spring of 1820.

The discovery of americium and curium in 1944 was closely related to the Manhattan Project ; the results were confidential and declassified only in 1945.

" This tradition ended on berkelium, though, as the naming of the next discovered actinide, californium, was not related to its lanthanide analogue dysprosium, but after the discovery place.

Given is each element's name, atomic number, year of first report, name of the discoverer, and some notes related to the discovery.

In 1938, Fermi received the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 37 for his " demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons ".

* Java Module System, a Java specification " defining a distribution format and a repository for collections of Java code and related resources ; it also defines the discovery, loading, and integrity mechanisms at runtime "

Nucleic acids were named for their initial discovery within the nucleus, and for the presence of phosphate groups ( related to phosphoric acid ).

Early developments in organometallic chemistry include Louis Claude Cadet ’ s synthesis of methyl arsenic compounds related to cacodyl, William Christopher Zeise's platinum-ethylene complex, Edward Frankland ’ s discovery of dimethyl zinc, Ludwig Mond ’ s discovery of Ni ( CO )< sub > 4 </ sub >, and Victor Grignard ’ s organomagnesium compounds.

After studying hundreds of adoptive families, the discovery was that people who grow up together, whether biologically related or not, do not much resemble one another in personality.

In Europe, Herodotus become known and highly respected only in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century as an ethnographer, in part due to the discovery of America, where customs and animals were encountered even more surprising than what he had related.

A discovery reported in 2009 of spun, dyed, and knotted wild flax fibers in a prehistoric cave in the Republic of Georgia shows that the plant was already in use by humans at the surprisingly early date of 30, 000 B. C .. New Zealand flax is not related to flax but was named after it, as both plants are used to produce fibers.

With the advent of Z39. 50: 1992, the termination of support for the free WAIS from Thinking Machines and the establishment of WAIS Inc as a commercial venture, the U. S. National Science Foundation funded CNIDR to create a clearinghouse of information related to Internet search and discovery systems and to promote open source and standards.

However, recent years have been fruitful for the discovery of several dinosaurs related to ancestors of Triceratops.

This is related to their discovery that at least the Dwarf Cassowary and Southern Cassowary produce very-low frequency sounds, which may aid in communication in dense rainforest.

The teenager related the discovery to his principal Robert McDonald.

Oil discovery and related industries created a boom in Silver in the mid 20th century.

The discovery of Gypsum and the related cement industry helped promote the area.

Plunkett related the story of this accidental discovery at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society national meeting in the History of Chemistry section, April 1986 in New York City which was published in the Symposium Proceedings.

Although Nefertari ’ s origins are unknown, the discovery from her tomb of a knob inscribed with the cartouche of Pharaoh Ay has led people to speculate she was related to him.

* Society for Biomolecular Sciences, an international non-profit scientific society dedicated to drug discovery and its related disciplines, based in Danbury, Connecticut, USA

Instead, functional rather than geographical intelligence requirements came to the fore such as counter-proliferation ( via the agency's Production and Targeting, Counter-Proliferation Section ) which had been a sphere of activity since the discovery of Pakistani physics students studying nuclear-weapons related subjects in 1974 ; counter-terrorism ( via two joint sections run in collaboration with the Security Service, one for Irish republicanism and one for international terrorism ); counter-narcotics and serious crime ( originally set up under the Western Hemisphere Controllerate in 1989 ); and a ' global issues ' section looking at matters such as the environment and other public welfare issues.

Browne's last publication during his lifetime ( 1658 ) were two philosophical Discourses intrinsically related to each other ; the first Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial or a Brief Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk, occasioned by the discovery of some Bronze Age burials in earthenware vessels found in Norfolk inspired him to meditate upon the funerary customs of the world and the fleetingness of earthly fame and reputation.

Since 2009, numerous news reports from the popular media have incorrectly described these systems as the long-awaited discovery of the magnetic monopoles, but the two phenomena are only superficially related to one another.