Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017
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.
Extinct animals found alive 2017. But then one was spotted a. Varanus douarrha was first encountered in 1823 by French naturalist René Lesson. 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 this whale species is quite alive and not at all extinct. 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.
At only around 6 meters in maximum size and swimming independently or in small groups its pretty easy to overlook these guys. These animals once believed to be extinct. 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.
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. The last sighting of the species was in 1986. Tasmanian Tiger May Still Exist.
About 15 of the dogs were found in 2017 in the remote Sudirman Mountains in Indonesia which researchers said was enough to make up one thriving pack. The last known member of this species was captured in 1933 and eventually died in a zoo. 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.
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 crested gecko went AWOL for many decades and was believed to be extinct until it was found in. The crest-tailed mulgara was once.