Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017
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.
Extinct animals found alive 2017. The crest-tailed mulgara was once. 7 BaijiYangtze River Dophin The baiji were dolphins found exclusively in the Yangtze River. DNA evidence suggests that the New Guinea highland wild dog is among the most primitive canines alive today and it may be a key ancestor of domesticated dogs.
In July 2017 Forrest and his crew explore in the island of Java discovered a 8-foot-long 24 m cat caught on the thermal drone which may believe to be the extinct Javan tiger. Ptychochromis only is a fish species that was become extinct by the IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature however Onilahy River system is large so there might be a possibility of remaining populations in the remote areas of the river. 10 Believed Extinct Species Still Alive.
However its extinction was due to other factors. 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 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.
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. The last sighting of the species was in 1986. Tasmanian Tiger May Still Exist.
It is one of the extinct animals. At only around 6 meters in maximum size and swimming independently or in small groups its pretty easy to overlook these guys. This has included the False Tree Coral Snake the pale-faced bat and a tiger beetle which many had thought was already extinct.
Researchers from the GWCs Search for Lost Species program found a population of the tiny animals in Djibouti the first found since 1968. But a taxidermied specimen from 1989 proves that they were around much longer than anybody thought. The baiji were declared extinct in 2006.