Extinct Animals Rediscovered 2019
Kids News has covered some of these important finds including the Vietnamese mouse-deer and Wallaces giant bee both found in 2019 and the Wondiwoi tree kangaroo found in 2018.
Extinct animals rediscovered 2019. It was rediscovered in 1996 in Thakhek Khammouan where these rodents were being sold as meat at a market. One such plant a hibiscus relative known as Hibiscadelphus woodii wasrediscovered in January 2019 on a remote cliff in the Kalalau Valley in Kauai Hawaii. From wild dogs to horned frogs all manner of animals are still capable of keeping out.
Back-from-the-brink species once thought extinct. Living in the Yangtze River in China the baiji was thought to be extinct but was rediscovered in 2006. An adult baiji can grow to six feet long and can weigh around 180 pounds.
Extinct animals rediscovered 2019. Extinct flower rediscovered in Hawaii via drones. In 2019 during an expedition to the Galapagos Galante trekked over Fernandina Island and discovered a female Fernandina Island tortoise a species that hadnt been seen for 113 years and also was classified as extinct.
The rediscovered reptile is just one of many lost animals to be found in recent years. This is a likely reason why these animals. A specimen of the giant Galapagos tortoise Chelonoidis phantasticus thought to have gone 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. The Fernandina Tortoise. THE natural world is currently going through its sixth mass extinction event with human activity pushing thousands of species of animals to the brink of total annihilation every year.
Lost to science since 1981 and thought by some to be extinct Wallaces giant bee Megachile pluto has been rediscovered in Indonesia by an international team of scientists and conservationists. These animals once believed to be extinct. Here are the animals that scientists rediscovered in 2019.