Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

The Tasmanian tiger a carnivorous marsupial that looks like a species of dog is supposedly extinct.

Extinct animals found alive 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. 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. Tasmanian Tiger May Still Exist.

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. It is one of the extinct animals. The baiji were declared extinct in 2006.

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. Varanus douarrha was first encountered in 1823 by French naturalist René Lesson. However its extinction was due to other factors.

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

However this whale species is quite alive and not at all extinct. But then one was spotted a. Researchers from the GWCs Search for Lost Species program found a population of the tiny animals in Djibouti the first found since 1968.

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. These animals once believed to be extinct.