Extinct Animals Found Alive 2018

It is officially listed as critically endangered possibly extinct because a lot of its habitat was destroyed by humans.

Extinct animals found alive 2018. If it is extinct scientists want to bring it back to make up for that. 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. I keep finding extinct species too and so far it seems like I might not be able to complete a planets fauna list because of it.

It had been considered extinct for nearly 80 years but the Tasmanian tiger has been declared alive and kicking by an intrepid group of British naturalistsA. 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 eastern Cougars were unofficially deemed extinct by a US Fish and Wildlife Service Evaluation in 2011 but they were officially removed from the endangered species list and declared extinct in 2018.

The Hoplitomeryx the five-horned deer. The Spixs macaw made famous by the movie Rio were declared extinct in the wild 2018. The Imperial Woodpecker may actually still be alive but hasnt been seen in more than 50 years.

The rediscovered reptile is just one of many lost animals to be found in recent years. Mainly extant during the Pleistocene epoch which lasted from about 2588000 to 10000 years ago the Woolly Mammoth Mammuthus primigenius was similar but slightly larger in size to a modern day African elephant but differed in that it was covered in. By all accounts the Hoplitomeryx would have looked a lot like a modern deer.

I got one planet right now with 1112 species found 1 extinct species that matches the habitat of the last unknown one. 2018 also saw species that may go extinct at any moment. In 2018 Galante captured multiple compelling pieces of evidence of the ongoing existence of animals believed extinct including trail camera footage of a Zanzibar leopard a big cat that had been classified as extinct for over 25 years.

More may be doomed. Theres little question that humanitys continued exploitation of wild animals and the depletion of their habitats have left many species either clinging to existence or at worst extinct. Todays extinctions are happening 100 to 1000 times.