Extinct Animals Rediscovered 2019
These animals once believed to be extinct.
Extinct animals rediscovered 2019. 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. Humans catch these dolphins and human pollution almost killed off the baiji in years before leading to a high possibility of a second true extinction of the creatures. Later three other specimens were obtained from villagers in 1998.
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. Extinct flower rediscovered in Hawaii via drones.
A specimen of the giant Galapagos tortoise Chelonoidis phantasticus thought to have gone extinct. The rediscovered reptile is just one of many lost animals to be found in recent years. A specimen of the giant Galapagos tortoise Chelonoidis phantasticus thought to have gone extinct about a century ago is seen at the Galapagos National Park on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Archipelago Feb.
Etlingera heyneana a plant species collected just one time in 1921 near jakarta on java the worlds most populous island. 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. But a science professor named Tetsuji Nakabo and a team of researchers rediscovered the species again in.
From wild dogs to horned frogs all manner of animals are still capable of keeping out. It was rediscovered in 1996 in Thakhek Khammouan where these rodents were being sold as meat at a market. One such plant a hibiscus relative known as Hibiscadelphus woodii wasrediscovered in January 2019 on a remote cliff in the Kalalau Valley in Kauai Hawaii.
But amid the catastrophe moments of hope come in the form of species once thought to have been lost forever being rediscovered decades later. THE natural world is currently going through its sixth mass extinction event with human activity pushing thousands of species of animals to the brink of total annihilation every year. In 2019 during an expedition to the Galapagos Galante trekked over Fernandina Island and discovered a female Fernandina Island tortoise a species that hadnt been seen for 113 years and also was classified as extinct.