Extinct Animals Rediscovered 2019
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Extinct animals rediscovered 2019. 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. An adult baiji can grow to six feet long and can weigh around 180 pounds. It was rediscovered in 1996 in Thakhek Khammouan where these rodents were being sold as meat at a market.
Etlingera heyneana a plant species collected just one time in 1921 near jakarta on java the worlds most populous island. Gallery of Cloning Extinct Animals 2019. Here are the animals that scientists rediscovered in 2019.
The rediscovered reptile is just one of many lost animals to be found in recent years. Takahe takahe at orokonui ecosanctuary in new zealand. Here are some other fascinating finds.
Back-from-the-brink species once thought extinct. 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. Living in the Yangtze River in China the baiji was thought to be extinct but was rediscovered in 2006.
The Laotian rock rat is a rodent species that belongs to an ancient fossil family that went extinct 11 million years ago. But a science professor named Tetsuji Nakabo and a team of researchers rediscovered the species again in. From wild dogs to horned frogs all manner of animals are still capable of keeping out.
Humans catch these dolphins and human pollution almost killed off the baiji in years before leading to a high possibility of a second true extinction of the creatures. First discovered in 1859 by the prominent scientist Alfred Russel Wallace researchers could not locate it again and it was presumed 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.