Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

The crest-tailed mulgara was once.

Extinct animals found alive 2017. 10 Believed Extinct Species Still Alive. 7 BaijiYangtze River Dophin The baiji were dolphins found exclusively in the Yangtze River. It is one of the extinct animals.

Tasmanian Tiger May Still Exist. 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. A team of herpetologists recently announced the discovery of a lifetimefour Albany adders alive and well.

However this whale species is quite alive and not at all extinct. A paper published last year argues the parasite has gone extinct. 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 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. Locals who spotted the dead animal on the side of the road stuffed it and kept it at home until recently when they handed it over to the National Parks and Wildlife Service. 22 species were also recorded whose presence in Honduras had previously been unknown including the endangered Great Green Macaw and a livebearing fish that scientists have only now discovered.

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. The crested gecko went AWOL for many decades and was believed to be extinct until it was found in. 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.

The baiji were declared extinct in 2006. 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. The last sighting of the species was in 1986.