Glow-in-the-dark Neonothopanus gardneri rediscovered after 170 years.
"In 1840, English botanist George Gardner was traveling in Brazil. One night, he noticed some boys playing with a strange, glowing object. To his shock, he had encountered a bioluminescent mushroom. It's only taken 170 years to find some more. After Gardner sent a sample of the fungus to Kew Herbarium in England, it pretty much disappeared completely, and it's now thanks to biologists at San Francisco State that we've finally found some more."
via io9.com
