Extinct Animals Found Alive 2018

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Extinct animals found alive 2018. Kids News has covered some of these important finds including the Vietnamese mouse-deer and Wallaces giant bee both found in 2019 and the Wondiwoi tree kangaroo found in 2018. The Imperial Woodpecker. 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.

It had been considered extinct for nearly 80 years but the Tasmanian tiger has been declared alive and kicking by an intrepid group of British naturalistsA. Theres little question that humanitys continued exploitation of wild animals and the depletion of their habitats have left many species either clinging to existence or at worst extinct. The bad news beyond extinction.

Northern white rhinos inhabited parts of Central African Republic Chad the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sudan and Uganda and are a subspecies of white rhinoceros. Some even describe these creatures as giraffe-like. Of note is the vaquita the dolphin-like porpoise that lives in.

Around 100 birds still exist in captivity. Here are some other fascinating finds. Extinct or Alive is an American wildlife documentary television programme produced for Animal Planet by Hot Snakes Media of New York City the United States.

2018 also saw species that may go extinct at any moment. More may be doomed. The rediscovered reptile is just one of many lost animals to be found in recent years.

When the last male died there in 2018 the scientific community deemed them recently extinct animals. By all accounts the Hoplitomeryx would have looked a lot like a modern deer. It is one of the extinct animals.