Extinct Animals Found Alive 2018

It is officially listed as critically endangered possibly extinct because a lot of its habitat was destroyed by humans.

Extinct animals found alive 2018. The bad news beyond extinction. The Imperial Woodpecker. Kids News has covered some of these important finds including the Vietnamese mouse-deer and Wallaces giant bee both found in 2019 and the Wondiwoi tree kangaroo found in 2018.

If it is extinct scientists want to bring it back to make up for that. The Imperial Woodpecker may actually still be alive but hasnt been seen in more than 50 years. Only a few dozen captive Spixs macaws are 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. There is no other supposedly surviving creature larger or more formidable than the majestic Woolly Mammoth. 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.

When the last male died there in 2018 the scientific community deemed them recently extinct animals. It had been considered extinct for nearly 80 years but the Tasmanian tiger has been declared alive and kicking by an intrepid group of British naturalistsA. More may be doomed.

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. 2018 also saw species that may go extinct at any moment. Living right alongside those big angry geese was an animal that would have fit in perfectly with every mythological creature.

With the end of 2018 comes the near-certain reality that some critters after millions of years of existence on Earth are gone for good. Around 100 birds still exist in captivity. Earth is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals.