Extinct Animals Found Alive 2018
By all accounts the Hoplitomeryx would have looked a lot like a modern deer.
Extinct animals found alive 2018. Some even describe these creatures as giraffe-like. Ptychochromis only is a fish species that was become extinct by the IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature however Onilahy River system is large so there might be a possibility of remaining populations in the remote areas of the river. 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.
Living right alongside those big angry geese was an animal that would have fit in perfectly with every mythological creature. 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. More may be doomed.
The rediscovered reptile is just one of many lost animals to be found in recent years. 2018 also saw species that may go extinct at any moment. 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.
They used to live in northeastern North America but not no more. I got one planet right now with 1112 species found 1 extinct species that matches the habitat of the last unknown one. 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.
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. It would have been a bit bigger and had longer legs. The Imperial Woodpecker.
Only a few dozen captive Spixs macaws are alive. 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. There is no other supposedly surviving creature larger or more formidable than the majestic Woolly Mammoth.