Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

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.

Extinct animals found alive 2017. The baiji were declared extinct in 2006. 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. These dolphins were once plentiful but have been doomed by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam and the increased boat traffic.

The final species named extinct in 2017 was a marine parasite found in Scotland. The crest-tailed mulgara was once. However its extinction was due to other factors.

The Tasmanian tiger a carnivorous marsupial that looks like a species of dog is supposedly extinct. 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. 7 BaijiYangtze River Dophin The baiji were dolphins found exclusively in the Yangtze River.

At only around 6 meters in maximum size and swimming independently or in small groups its pretty easy to overlook these guys. 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 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.

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. Eastern quolls were thought to have gone extinct on the Australian mainland more than 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.

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. The last sighting of the species was in 1986. Here Are Some Supposedly Extinct Animals Found Alive.