In this photo taken Sept. 11, 2014, Derek Sikes properly stores the Chionotyphlus alaskensis specimen after photographing it in the insect collection preparation lab in the University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum of the North in Fairbanks, Alaska. Until this month, the university museum didn’t have a sample among the 2,500 insect species in the collection there, something that hadn’t escaped Sike’s attention. Sikes became insect curator in 2006 and searched unsuccessfully for a Chionotyphlus alaskensis samples during the past few summers. (AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Erin Corneliussen)
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