Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

A team working in Sturt National Park to bring back locally extinct species unexpectedly found one that wasnt on the list the crest-tailed mulgara Dasycercus cristicauda a tiny carnivorous marsupial with a unique ability to survive in dry deserts.

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. 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.

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. A team of herpetologists recently announced the discovery of a lifetimefour Albany adders alive and well. 7 BaijiYangtze River Dophin The baiji were dolphins found exclusively in the Yangtze River.

These animals once believed to be extinct. The final species named extinct in 2017 was a marine parasite found in Scotland. 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.

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. 10 Believed Extinct Species Still Alive. However this whale species is quite alive and not at all extinct.

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. It is one of the extinct animals. These dolphins were once plentiful but have been doomed by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam and the increased boat traffic.

The last known member of this species was captured in 1933 and eventually died in a zoo. 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 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.