I know, I thought the same thing, but it was just too bizzare to pass up.  Not only was this lillte ninja thought to be extinct, it breathes through it's ass.  Yes, it's ASS.  I wonder if it can smell?

Okay, so I swiped news from Fark, but I thought it was cool.  Thanks to the ineptitude of field biologists, this little wonder of nature was thought to be extinct... the last know fossil specimen dated to 15,000 years ago, sometime around the most recent ice age.  Not only does it's "rear orfice" house it's tiny little poop chute as well as it's lungs, it's reproductive organs are jammed in there, too.  Brings to mind all kind of odd images, doesn't it?  How does it breathe during sex?  Its like reptile autoerotic asphyxiation.  I suppose I shouldn't be thinking these things....

Now the Lavarak's turtle (that's what they call it) has been transplanted to a plastic holding cell in a lab in Australia where it will be subject to various pokes and prods, including an anal probing. 

Hang in there little guy, we're all pullin' for you.

To read the rest of the story, done by more credible journalists than myself, check out The Australian.