Extinct Animals Found Alive 2018
These species went extinct in 2018.
Extinct animals found alive 2018. 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. Only a few dozen captive Spixs macaws are alive. The Spixs macaw made famous by the movie Rio were declared extinct in the wild 2018.
Northern white rhinos inhabited parts of Central African Republic Chad the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sudan and Uganda and are a subspecies of white rhinoceros. More may be doomed. Some even describe these creatures as giraffe-like.
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. The rediscovered reptile is just one of many lost animals to be found in recent years. It is officially listed as critically endangered possibly extinct because a lot of its habitat was destroyed by humans.
Patrick Pleulpicture alliance via Getty Images. 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. A type of cougar that was declared extinct back in 2011.
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. 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. 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.
Here are some other fascinating finds. The bad news beyond extinction. By all accounts the Hoplitomeryx would have looked a lot like a modern deer.