Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

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.

Extinct animals found alive 2017. 10 Believed Extinct Species Still Alive. 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 last known member of this species was captured in 1933 and eventually died in a zoo.

Eastern quolls were thought to have gone extinct on the Australian mainland more than 50 years ago. 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 last sighting of the species was in 1986.

The speedy mouse-sized beast can run at speeds of up to 30kmh and was caught in the very first of 1259 traps set in 12 locations by researchers searching for the missing sengi. 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. 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.

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. The crested gecko went AWOL for many decades and was believed to be extinct until it was found in. These dolphins were once plentiful but have been doomed by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam and the increased boat traffic.

The medium-sized monitor lizard was since thought lost to science until 2017. 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. 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.

Extinct mammal found alive in Australia Posted on Saturday 16 December 2017 7 comments Finding a live crest-tailed mulgara came as something of a surprise. 7 BaijiYangtze River Dophin The baiji were dolphins found exclusively in the Yangtze River. The final species named extinct in 2017 was a marine parasite found in Scotland.