Extinct Animals Still Alive
15 Woolly Mammoth Standing at an imposing eleven feet tall and weighing up to six and a half tonnes about as heavy I am after Christmas dinner the Woolly Mammoth is a legendary mammal that lived alongside early humans around 200000.
Extinct animals still alive. There have been millions of species that have gone extinct over the course of EarthslifetimeIn fact scientists estimate that 150-200 species of plant insect bird and mammals become extinct every 24 hours. The Meru Betiri National Parkthe site of the last confirmed sightingseems to be the most likely spot for their survival. He firmly believes the Javan tiger is alive.
They are ancient creatures that did not get extinct unchanged for millions of years and are still around in the present time. There is still a big part of the Earth that humans fail to discover or understand this is why sometimes species that are believed to be extinct long ago can still be found roaming on the surface of our planet. 10 Extinct Animals That May Still Be Alive Baiji Yangtze River Dophin Passenger Pigeon Tasmanian Tiger Woolly Mammoth More in Extras Extras.
So these are some of those terrifying extinct animals which may be still alive. We all know about Darwins evolution theory and how animals which werent the fittest for survival went extinct. The elephant shrews are small mammals that resemble rodents but are actually related to elephants.
Megalodon means Big mighty in ancient Greek. The species had disappeared for over a decade and was generally believed to be extinct until four live and one dead species were found in 2016 and early 2017. This just sounds insane to me.
The Pyrenean Mountain Ibex is one of the most recently extinct species on this list and one of the most recently extinct species of the world for that matter. Prehistoric Animals That Are Alive Today. The term used to describe extinct animals that were eventually found alive is Lazarus species.
Generally it helps if there is a species still alive today that is genetically similar to the extinct animal like elephants for woolly mammoths or cows for aurochs. Activist Wahyu Giri Prasetyo is still finding evidence of the tigerfrom hair to scat. Eastern quolls were thought to have gone extinct on the Australian mainland more than 50 years ago.