Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

These dolphins were once plentiful but have been doomed by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam and the increased boat traffic.

Extinct animals found alive 2017. However this whale species is quite alive and not at all extinct. Researchers from the GWCs Search for Lost Species program found a population of the tiny animals in Djibouti the first found since 1968. The baiji were declared extinct in 2006.

Tasmanian Tiger May Still Exist. 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. 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.

It is one of the extinct animals. The medium-sized monitor lizard was since thought lost to science until 2017. 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. 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. The crested gecko went AWOL for many decades and was believed to be extinct until it was found in.

Not only has it been 31 years since its been seen but the fish it usually lives within are listed as threatened or endangered from overfishing. A paper published last year argues the parasite has gone extinct. About 15 of the dogs were found in 2017 in the remote Sudirman Mountains in Indonesia which researchers said was enough to make up one thriving pack.

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. But a taxidermied specimen from 1989 proves that they were around much longer than anybody thought. 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.