Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

The New Guinea highland wild dog the rarest and most ancient canine species in the world is a distant relative of the Australian dingo that went extinct 50 years ago.

Extinct animals found alive 2017. Here Are Some Supposedly Extinct Animals Found Alive. Researchers from the GWCs Search for Lost Species program found a population of the tiny animals in Djibouti the first found since 1968. 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.

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. However its extinction was due to other factors. 10 Believed Extinct Species Still Alive.

The crest-tailed mulgara was once. 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. The medium-sized monitor lizard was since thought lost to science until 2017.

Nonetheless researchers say recent studies show that Pygmy Right Whale qualifies as a living fossil because most of its family lineage went extinct millions of years ago. The final species named extinct in 2017 was a marine parasite found in Scotland. At only around 6 meters in maximum size and swimming independently or in small groups its pretty easy to overlook these guys.

7 BaijiYangtze River Dophin The baiji were dolphins found exclusively in the Yangtze River. The last sighting of the species was in 1986. 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. It is one of the extinct animals. A team of herpetologists recently announced the discovery of a lifetimefour Albany adders alive and well.