The world's largest bee, last seen by a scientist in 1981, is not extinct after all. A single female was found and documented earlier this year on an Indonesian island, an Australian university and other groups said Thursday. Source: NBC News. Are you familiar with this story?

The bee, Megachile pluto, also known as "Wallace's giant bee" (named after British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace who discovered it) was seen in January in Indonesia's North Moluccas island group by an international team of researchers looking for the rare species, the University of Sydney said. "Amid such a well-documented global decline in insect diversity, it's wonderful to discover that this iconic species is still hanging on," team member Simon Robson, honorary professor of the university's school of life and environmental sciences, said in a statement released by the educational institution. Which facts are you familiar with?

The team found the single female giant bee in a termite nest in a tree and about 8 feet off the ground. Photographer Clay Bolt wrote in an account of the discovery published online Thursday by the group Global Wildlife Conservation in Austin, Texas. The group, which supported the effort, runs a lost species program. "The structure was just too perfect and similar to what we expected to find," Bolt wrote. "I climbed up next, and my headlamp glinted on the most remarkable thing I'd ever laid my eyes on. I simply couldn't believe it: "We had rediscovered Wallace's Giant Bee." The bee was documented and released back to the nest. Which is the largest bee(s) you have ever seen?