Extinct Animals Rediscovered 2020
Steven Heritage at Global Wildlife Conservation.
Extinct animals rediscovered 2020. This week reports broke that two animals previously believed to be extinct are in fact not. Hardcover Illustrated October 6 2020. In 2019 during an expedition to the Galapagos Galante trekked over Fernandina Island and discovered a female Fernandina Island tortoise a species that hadnt been seen for 113 years and also was classified as extinct.
Here is the list. However some animals are said to be extinct have been found again. Then in August 2020 a team of researchers reported that these mouse-sized creatures with distinctive elongated noses were alive and well.
As well as identifying new species the Conservation International team rediscovered four species thought to be extinct including the. The rediscovered reptile is just one of many lost animals to be found in recent years. Until 2020 the last scientific record of the lost species of Somali elephant shrew was in the 1970s despite local sightings so it was assumed that they had likely become extinct.
Wallaces giant bee was rediscovered in the North Moluccas islands in January 2019. The Tasmanian tiger was presumed to be extinct after the last captive animal died in 1936 at the Hobart Zoo in. The monster bee which is the size of a human thumb and boasts the jaws of.
She was nicknamed Forgotten Fern and has. For example animals such as the Sumatran rhino in Malaysia have been confirmed extinct and now only about 80 species remain in the neighboring country Indonesia. Rediscovered in 2009 after disappearing since 1949 the deer species is native to Afghanistan Pakistan Nepal and India where it makes its home in steep rocky outcrops with dense foliage far away from screaming audiences and rabid fans.
19 2020 Updated 939 pm. 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. A Fernandina Giant Tortoise was spotted on the Galapagos island of Fernandina for the first time since 1906 and a Wallaces giant bee was observed in Indonesia for the first time since 1981 as CNN reported.