work a bit better.

3DValley Featured 2D Artist for December 2008 – Anikó Hencz. Anikó currently lives and works from Budapest, Hungary. She was taught graphics and painting by some excellent artists. Later on in life she took private drawing lessons and was more and more attracted towards abstract art and surrealism. She mostly use computer graphics, though all her paintings – may they be hand drawings, computer graphics, photo manipulations or some combination of all these techniques – she tries to capture an unique language that shows her personal emotions and visions. Her second “love” is creating handcrafted jewelry, especially beaded jewelry combined with glass, cork, wire, or stones. Please read our interview with Anikó below to get to know her and her work a bit better.“Featured 2DAfter going missing for half a century, and being declared extinct in 1996, the Hula painted frog was spotted in northern Israel this week. The species, which has only ever been seen in Israel's Hula Valley, was last encountered in the 1950s, and was never around that much to begin with - only five Hula painted frogs have ever been collected, four in the '40s and one in the '50s. Israel's Nature and Parks Authority says "the species now has another chance to survive".

This isn't the first time a species was thought to be long gone, and then went and reappeared. In the science world, these "living fossil" species are called "Lazarus taxons". Here are a few other examples:

The Mountain Pygmy Possum



Until 1966, the existence of Australia's Mountain