Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017
The baiji were declared extinct in 2006.
Extinct animals found alive 2017. 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. These dolphins were once plentiful but have been doomed by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam and the increased boat traffic. The medium-sized monitor lizard was since thought lost to science until 2017.
Tasmanian Tiger May Still Exist. 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. The crest-tailed mulgara was once.
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. The final species named extinct in 2017 was a marine parasite found in Scotland.
But a taxidermied specimen from 1989 proves that they were around much longer than anybody thought. The last known member of this species was captured in 1933 and eventually died in a zoo. 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.
Varanus douarrha was first encountered in 1823 by French naturalist René Lesson. 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. The last sighting of the species was in 1986.
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. However its extinction was due to other factors. The crested gecko went AWOL for many decades and was believed to be extinct until it was found in.