Extinct Animals Found Alive 2018

It would have been a bit bigger and had longer legs.

Extinct animals found alive 2018. The Imperial Woodpecker. The Spixs macaw made famous by the movie Rio were declared extinct in the wild 2018. Of note is the vaquita the dolphin-like porpoise that lives in.

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 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. By all accounts the Hoplitomeryx would have looked a lot like a modern deer.

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. Patrick Pleulpicture alliance via Getty Images. Living right alongside those big angry geese was an animal that would have fit in perfectly with every mythological creature.

I keep finding extinct species too and so far it seems like I might not be able to complete a planets fauna list because of it. 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. 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.

Around 100 birds still exist in captivity. The Hoplitomeryx the five-horned deer. A type of cougar that was declared extinct back in 2011.

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. 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. With the end of 2018 comes the near-certain reality that some critters after millions of years of existence on Earth are gone for good.