Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

The crested gecko went AWOL for many decades and was believed to be extinct until it was found in.

Extinct animals found alive 2017. 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. 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 team of herpetologists recently announced the discovery of a lifetimefour Albany adders alive and well.

The Tasmanian tiger a carnivorous marsupial that looks like a species of dog is supposedly extinct. Eastern quolls were thought to have gone extinct on the Australian mainland more than 50 years ago. These animals once believed to be extinct.

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 last sighting of the species was in 1986. Its official rediscovery came in early 2019 after a five-day expedition during which a single female was found in a termite nest where the species typically burrows and nests 8 feet off the ground.

However its extinction was due to other factors. 22 species were also recorded whose presence in Honduras had previously been unknown including the endangered Great Green Macaw and a livebearing fish that scientists have only now discovered. 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.

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. Ptychochromis only is a fish species that was become extinct by the IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature however Onilahy River system is large so there might be a possibility of remaining populations in the remote areas of the river. The last known member of this species was captured in 1933 and eventually died in a zoo.

Extinct mammal found alive in Australia Posted on Saturday 16 December 2017 7 comments Finding a live crest-tailed mulgara came as something of a surprise. 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.