“A petite, flightless grasshopper once thought to be extinct has been spotted in Virginia for the first time in nearly 80 years.

The last time anyone officially documented the Appalachian grasshopper (Appalachia hebardi) in the state was in 1946, according to a January statement from the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation.

But Andrew Rapp, a field zoologist with the department’s Natural Heritage Program, recently captured an adult female in the northwest part of Virginia—proof that the elusive species has not completely disappeared.”

From Smithsonian Magazine.