Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

However this whale species is quite alive and not at all extinct.

Extinct animals found alive 2017. But a taxidermied specimen from 1989 proves that they were around much longer than anybody thought. It is one of the extinct animals. At only around 6 meters in maximum size and swimming independently or in small groups its pretty easy to overlook these guys.

10 Believed Extinct Species Still Alive. Its official rediscovery came in early 2019 after a five-day expedition during which a single female was found in a termite nest where the species typically burrows and nests 8 feet off the ground. Some of the most famous extinct animals of recent times have been birds--but for every Passenger Pigeon or Dodo theres a much bigger and much lesser-known casualties like the Elephant Bird or the Eastern Moa and many other species remain endangered to this day.

Not only has it been 31 years since its been seen but the fish it usually lives within are listed as threatened or endangered from overfishing. Varanus douarrha was first encountered in 1823 by French naturalist René Lesson. The crested gecko went AWOL for many decades and was believed to be extinct until it was found in.

Since then the all-star species was feared extinct until two specimens popped up on Ebay in 2018 one of which sold for over 9000. The speedy mouse-sized beast can run at speeds of up to 30kmh and was caught in the very first of 1259 traps set in 12 locations by researchers searching for the missing sengi. About 15 of the dogs were found in 2017 in the remote Sudirman Mountains in Indonesia which researchers said was enough to make up one thriving pack.

The scientist intended on bringing the specimen home for closer analysis but the creature went down in a shipwreck off the Cape of Good Hope less than a year later. DNA evidence suggests that the New Guinea highland wild dog is among the most primitive canines alive today and it may be a key ancestor of domesticated dogs. Researchers from the GWCs Search for Lost Species program found a population of the tiny animals in Djibouti the first found since 1968.

The last sighting of the species was in 1986. The Tasmanian tiger a carnivorous marsupial that looks like a species of dog is supposedly extinct. Extinct mammal found alive in Australia Posted on Saturday 16 December 2017 7 comments Finding a live crest-tailed mulgara came as something of a surprise.