Extinct Animals Found Alive 2018

I keep finding extinct species too and so far it seems like I might not be able to complete a planets fauna list because of it.

Extinct animals found alive 2018. It would have been a bit bigger and had longer legs. Patrick Pleulpicture alliance via Getty Images. Northern white rhinos inhabited parts of Central African Republic Chad the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sudan and Uganda and are a subspecies of white rhinoceros.

The Imperial Woodpecker. The Imperial Woodpecker may actually still be alive but hasnt been seen in more than 50 years. Todays extinctions are happening 100 to 1000 times.

They used to live in northeastern North America but not no more. There is no other supposedly surviving creature larger or more formidable than the majestic Woolly Mammoth. The Hoplitomeryx the five-horned deer.

By all accounts the Hoplitomeryx would have looked a lot like a modern deer. Of note is the vaquita the dolphin-like porpoise that lives in. Only a few dozen captive Spixs macaws are alive.

The rediscovered reptile is just one of many lost animals to be found in recent years. The eastern Cougars were unofficially deemed extinct by a US Fish and Wildlife Service Evaluation in 2011 but they were officially removed from the endangered species list and declared extinct in 2018. Earth is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals.

It is officially listed as critically endangered possibly extinct because a lot of its habitat was destroyed by humans. More may be doomed. In 2018 Galante captured multiple compelling pieces of evidence of the ongoing existence of animals believed extinct including trail camera footage of a Zanzibar leopard a big cat that had been classified as extinct for over 25 years.