Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

Tasmanian Tiger May Still Exist.

Extinct animals found alive 2017. 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. It is one of the extinct animals. Varanus douarrha was first encountered in 1823 by French naturalist René Lesson.

But a taxidermied specimen from 1989 proves that they were around much longer than anybody thought. Eastern quolls were thought to have gone extinct on the Australian mainland more than 50 years ago. 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.

Since then the all-star species was feared extinct until two specimens popped up on Ebay in 2018 one of which sold for over 9000. The medium-sized monitor lizard was since thought lost to science until 2017. 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.

At only around 6 meters in maximum size and swimming independently or in small groups its pretty easy to overlook these guys. The crested gecko went AWOL for many decades and was believed to be extinct until it was found in. 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. However this whale species is quite alive and not at all extinct. However its extinction was due to other factors.

The crest-tailed mulgara was once. 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. A paper published last year argues the parasite has gone extinct.