Extinct Animals Found Alive 2018

When the last male died there in 2018 the scientific community deemed them recently extinct animals.

Extinct animals found alive 2018. Todays extinctions are happening 100 to 1000 times. Patrick Pleulpicture alliance via Getty Images. 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.

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. More may be doomed. 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.

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. It is hosted by conservationist and television personality Forrest Galante who travels to different locations around the globe to learn about possibly extinct animals and whether or not there is a chance that they may still be. 10 Recently Extinct Birds.

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. 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. The rediscovered reptile is just one of many lost animals to be found in recent years.

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. These species went extinct in 2018. 2018 also saw species that may go extinct at any moment.

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. 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. The Imperial Woodpecker may actually still be alive but hasnt been seen in more than 50 years.