According to The Guardian, a species of moth known for mimicking of a variety of similar looking (and similarly behaving) bees has been rediscovered in Malaysia. This particular species of moth hasn’t been seen since 1887, and had gone missing due to the massive amount of deforestation in the area. What made this story interesting to me, beyond how striking this moth looks, is the fact that the way it has adapted to its environment reminds me a great deal of the way the creatures in something like “Annihilation” would adapt where they become almost this amalgamation of similar, but dissimilar, species, since this moth, while it is a moth, looks nothing like the ones we would usually think of. Also, I think the story also goes to show what a weird dystopia we live in where a species could be extinct, or it could not be; we just really never know since we’re paying more attention to what we can take from these places than what’s actually there.
Science Parable 