Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

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.

Extinct animals found alive 2017. 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. These dolphins were once plentiful but have been doomed by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam and the increased boat traffic. However its extinction was due to other factors.

Tasmanian Tiger May Still Exist. Varanus douarrha was first encountered in 1823 by French naturalist René Lesson. Here Are Some Supposedly Extinct Animals Found Alive.

At only around 6 meters in maximum size and swimming independently or in small groups its pretty easy to overlook these guys. 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. It is one of the extinct animals.

A paper published last year argues the parasite has gone extinct. 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. 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.

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. 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. The final species named extinct in 2017 was a marine parasite found in Scotland.

The baiji were declared extinct in 2006. The last known member of this species was captured in 1933 and eventually died in a zoo. 10 Believed Extinct Species Still Alive.