Extinct Animals Rediscovered 2019
A specimen of the giant Galapagos tortoise Chelonoidis phantasticus thought to have gone extinct.
Extinct animals rediscovered 2019. 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. First discovered in 1859 by the prominent scientist Alfred Russel Wallace researchers could not locate it again and it was presumed extinct. Living in the Yangtze River in China the baiji was thought to be extinct but was rediscovered in 2006.
Here are some other fascinating finds. These animals once believed to be extinct. Scientists Insert Genes From The Woolly Mammoth Into An.
The Fernandina Tortoise. Of cladoceran believed to be extinct has been rediscovered 2019. In 2019 during an expedition to the Galapagos Galante trekked over Fernandina Island and discovered a female Fernandina Island tortoise a species that hadnt been seen for 113 years and also was classified as extinct.
It was rediscovered in 1996 in Thakhek Khammouan where these rodents were being sold as meat at a market. Back-from-the-brink species once thought extinct. The rediscovered reptile is just one of many lost animals to be found in recent years.
But a science professor named Tetsuji Nakabo and a team of researchers rediscovered the species again in. The rediscovered reptile is just one of many lost animals to be found in recent years. Takahe takahe at orokonui ecosanctuary in new zealand.
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. Etlingera heyneana a plant species collected just one time in 1921 near jakarta on java the worlds most populous island. THE natural world is currently going through its sixth mass extinction event with human activity pushing thousands of species of animals to the brink of total annihilation every year.