Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

The crest-tailed mulgara was once.

Extinct animals found alive 2017. The New Guinea highland wild dog the rarest and most ancient canine species in the world is a distant relative of the Australian dingo that went extinct 50 years ago. But a taxidermied specimen from 1989 proves that they were around much longer than anybody thought. However this whale species is quite alive and not at all extinct.

Researchers from the GWCs Search for Lost Species program found a population of the tiny animals in Djibouti the first found since 1968. A team of herpetologists recently announced the discovery of a lifetimefour Albany adders alive and well. 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 last sighting of the species was in 1986. 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. The final species named extinct in 2017 was a marine parasite found in Scotland.

10 Believed Extinct Species Still Alive. The baiji were declared extinct in 2006. But then one was spotted a.

Here Are Some Supposedly Extinct Animals Found Alive. A team working in Sturt National Park to bring back locally extinct species unexpectedly found one that wasnt on the list the crest-tailed mulgara Dasycercus cristicauda a tiny carnivorous marsupial with a unique ability to survive in dry deserts. It is one of the extinct animals.

7 BaijiYangtze River Dophin The baiji were dolphins found exclusively in the Yangtze River. 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. 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.