Extinct Animals Found Alive 2018

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.

Extinct animals found alive 2018. The Hoplitomeryx the five-horned deer. It is officially listed as critically endangered possibly extinct because a lot of its habitat was destroyed by humans. Earth is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals.

The rediscovered reptile is just one of many lost animals to be found in recent years. When the last male died there in 2018 the scientific community deemed them recently extinct animals. Around 100 birds still exist in captivity.

Patrick Pleulpicture alliance via Getty Images. A type of cougar that was declared extinct back in 2011. The Imperial Woodpecker.

Extinct or Alive is an American wildlife documentary television programme produced for Animal Planet by Hot Snakes Media of New York City the United States. 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. More may be doomed.

Todays extinctions are happening 100 to 1000 times. 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. 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.

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. 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. Of note is the vaquita the dolphin-like porpoise that lives in.