Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

It is one of the extinct animals.

Extinct animals found alive 2017. However this whale species is quite alive and not at all extinct. However its extinction was due to other factors. 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.

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

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. At only around 6 meters in maximum size and swimming independently or in small groups its pretty easy to overlook these guys. These animals once believed to be extinct.

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

Here Are Some Supposedly Extinct Animals Found Alive. 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. 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.

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. Varanus douarrha was first encountered in 1823 by French naturalist René Lesson. But then one was spotted a.