Extinct Animals Found Alive 2018

With the end of 2018 comes the near-certain reality that some critters after millions of years of existence on Earth are gone for good.

Extinct animals found alive 2018. The Imperial Woodpecker may actually still be alive but hasnt been seen in more than 50 years. The bad news beyond extinction. 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.

There is no other supposedly surviving creature larger or more formidable than the majestic Woolly Mammoth. Todays extinctions are happening 100 to 1000 times. Here are some other fascinating finds.

The Hoplitomeryx the five-horned deer. The rediscovered reptile is just one of many lost animals to be found in recent years. Patrick Pleulpicture alliance via Getty Images.

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. 2018 also saw species that may go extinct at any moment. By all accounts the Hoplitomeryx would have looked a lot like a modern deer.

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. 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. 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.

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. Kids News has covered some of these important finds including the Vietnamese mouse-deer and Wallaces giant bee both found in 2019 and the Wondiwoi tree kangaroo found in 2018. They used to live in northeastern North America but not no more.