Extinct Animals Found Alive 2018
Living right alongside those big angry geese was an animal that would have fit in perfectly with every mythological creature.
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. These species went extinct in 2018. 2018 also saw species that may go extinct at any moment.
Earth is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals. 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. The Zanzibar Leopard.
By all accounts the Hoplitomeryx would have looked a lot like a modern deer. It would have been a bit bigger and had longer legs. 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.
They used to live in northeastern North America but not no more. 10 Recently Extinct Birds. There is no other supposedly surviving creature larger or more formidable than the majestic Woolly Mammoth.
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. 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. The Spixs macaw made famous by the movie Rio were declared extinct in the wild 2018.
More may be doomed. Around 100 birds still exist in captivity. 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.