relict

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The Latin name Relictithismia kimotsukiensis is similar, as it can be translated as "Thismia relict of Kimotsuki."

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

Perseverance is the tip of the spear in humanity’s grand quest to find traces of a relict Martian biosphere.

From Scientific American • Feb. 17, 2022

Either the tiny relict population had winked out, or the original sightings had been in error.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2021

"Its living flora, with the highest concentration of primitive, archaic and relict taxa known, is the closest modern-day counterpart for Gondwanan forests," says the UN body.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2021

Those relict Negritos of Southeast Asia may be the last survivors of the source population from which New Guinea was colonized.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond