For decades, scientists believed a small beetle with a comically large snout had quietly vanished from the forests of the eastern United States — wiped out by the same disease that nearly erased the American chestnut tree itself. The greater chestnut weevil hadn't been definitively seen since the 1990s. Many assumed it was extinct. But two scientists at the University of Memphis weren't so sure.

Today, the story of a beetle presumed gone — and what its rediscovery might mean in an era of rapid biodiversity loss.

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