Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017

Varanus douarrha was first encountered in 1823 by French naturalist René Lesson.

Extinct animals found alive 2017. Eastern quolls were thought to have gone extinct on the Australian mainland more than 50 years ago. 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. 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.

It is one of the extinct animals. 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. A team working in Sturt National Park to bring back locally extinct species unexpectedly found one that wasnt on the list the crest-tailed mulgara Dasycercus cristicauda a tiny carnivorous marsupial with a unique ability to survive in dry deserts.

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

Researchers from the GWCs Search for Lost Species program found a population of the tiny animals in Djibouti the first found since 1968. 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.

However its extinction was due to other factors. 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. Tasmanian Tiger May Still Exist.

However this whale species is quite alive and not at all extinct. This has included the False Tree Coral Snake the pale-faced bat and a tiger beetle which many had thought was already extinct. These animals once believed to be extinct.