Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

The medium-sized monitor lizard was since thought lost to science until 2017.

Extinct animals found alive 2017. 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. 7 BaijiYangtze River Dophin The baiji were dolphins found exclusively in the Yangtze River. A team of herpetologists recently announced the discovery of a lifetimefour Albany adders alive and well.

But then one was spotted a. Varanus douarrha was first encountered in 1823 by French naturalist René Lesson. 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 mammal found alive in Australia Posted on Saturday 16 December 2017 7 comments Finding a live crest-tailed mulgara came as something of a surprise. The baiji were declared extinct in 2006. The final species named extinct in 2017 was a marine parasite found in Scotland.

Tasmanian Tiger May Still Exist. 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. 10 Believed Extinct Species Still Alive.

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. Eastern quolls were thought to have gone extinct on the Australian mainland more than 50 years ago. 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.

This has included the False Tree Coral Snake the pale-faced bat and a tiger beetle which many had thought was already extinct. 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. These animals once believed to be extinct.