Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

Tasmanian Tiger May Still Exist.

Extinct animals found alive 2017. 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. Not only has it been 31 years since its been seen but the fish it usually lives within are listed as threatened or endangered from overfishing. The final species named extinct in 2017 was a marine parasite found in Scotland.

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. At only around 6 meters in maximum size and swimming independently or in small groups its pretty easy to overlook these guys. 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 medium-sized monitor lizard was since thought lost to science until 2017. Researchers from the GWCs Search for Lost Species program found a population of the tiny animals in Djibouti the first found since 1968. 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.

Varanus douarrha was first encountered in 1823 by French naturalist René Lesson. However its extinction was due to other factors. 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.

These dolphins were once plentiful but have been doomed by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam and the increased boat traffic. But then one was spotted a. The last known member of this species was captured in 1933 and eventually died in a zoo.

It is one of the extinct animals. 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. The crested gecko went AWOL for many decades and was believed to be extinct until it was found in.