Extinct Animals Found Alive 2017. The iucn lists the chacoan peccary as endangered. 'extinct' mammal found alive in australia.
Still, researchers have only seen twelve specimens since the snake's initial discovery in 1937. The javan tiger was found on the indonesian island of java, fittingly enough. It’s also an example of something called the lazarus taxon.this is when a plant or animal seems to have vanished from the earth, only to turn up again alive and well.
Creatures thought to be extinct found alive in honduras' 'lost city' in 2017, another driver reported seeing a possible thylacine near the deep gully forest reserve in northwestern tasmania.
The coelacanth is an ancient fish, and the kind of creature science refers to as a living fossil. Although this event has been ongoing for the past 10,000 years or so—since the last ice age, to be exact—the mass extinction has been accelerating at a dizzying pace. Administrator / june 8, 2017. 'extinct' mountain dogs rediscovered in the wild unseen for more than 50 years, the new guinea highland wild dog has at last been confirmed in its natural island habitat.