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Reports of this animal’s demise were otter nonsense.

A wild giant river otter feared to be extinct in Argentina was recently spotted swimming in the country’s Bermejo River,according to local conservationists.

“It was a huge surprise,” Sebastián Di Martino, director of conservation at Fundación RewildingArgentinatold The Guardian.

“I was incredulous. An incredible feeling of so much happiness,” Di Martino said of the sighting. “I didn’t know if I should try to follow it or rush back to our station to tell the others.”

The species, officially calledPteronura brasiliensis,had not been seen in the…