Thousands of animals were described by science, then never seen again. No death certificate, no proof they are gone. Nobody is out there looking for most of them.
There is no expedition budget on Earth big enough. But there are billions of phones. If you saw something you couldn't name, send the photo. That is the whole ask.
Real evidence is forwarded to the open scientific databases where experts identify it. A confirmed rediscovery carries the finder's name into the literature. Permanently.
Your photo lands at the intake desk. A human reads every single one. No bots deciding, no auto-publish. Junk dies here.
Anything promising goes to iNaturalist, where a global expert community identifies it. Verified sightings become research-grade data.
Research-grade records flow into GBIF, the database cited in scientific papers. That entry never expires.
Shoot it. Phone is enough. Blurry counts. Track, feather, roadkill, a strange call, all of it counts.
Send it. Photo, where, when. Thirty seconds. No wallet, no login, no cost, ever.
We screen it. Real candidates get forwarded into the open scientific record for expert identification.
Credit is yours. A rediscovery carries the finder's name. Not ours. Yours.
A fish gone 66 million years. A bird gone 172. A tortoise gone 112. Every specimen on that globe marked FOUND was once marked MISSING. Somebody looked, and science had to correct itself.
A community that was supposed to be exit liquidity, holding the photo that brought a species back from the dead.
It doesn't know it's lost.
It's just waiting for one camera.