10 Animals We Thought Were Extinct Have Reappeared

Currently, many species of animals are threatened with extinction: polar bears, giraffes, java rhinos, gorillas and even the monarch butterfly. This threat is really worrying and very sad. However, in the same way that tragic things can happen on our Planet, we can also have great surprises, such as the fact that the panda bear is no longer threatened, which is also the case with other species of animals that we thought extinct.

Today the awesome.club brings good news: 10 animals we thought were gone, but have been seen again in the wild.

The beautiful clouded leopard, or clouded panther, is a species that lives in Taiwan. He was seen again after 30 years of ‘disappearance’. This animal migrated to the mountains in the 1980s when its natural habitat was destroyed. But there is still no exact count of the number of copies that exist. As the species was considered extinct, it is on the list of vulnerable animals according to the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).

Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus goodfellowi🇧🇷

THE Global Wildlife Conservation places it as one of the 25 most wanted lost species. And it does so with good reason: the animal was seen only once, in 1928, when it was registered through a drawing. In July 2018, 90 years after being cataloged as extinct, Briton Michael Smith registered the Dendrolagus mayri for the first time in a photo in an unexplored area of ​​New Guinea. Experts believe they survived because they remained isolated in a mountain range.

Yes, a thumb-sized bee looks pretty visible, but it was thought to be extinct for 120 years. The bee megachile plutobetter known as the giant Wallace bee (named after its discoverer, Alfred Russel Wallace), went from being an extinct animal to being vulnerable according to the IUCN when it was rediscovered on January 25, 2019 by a team of explorers consisting of photographer Clay Bolt, entomologist Eli Wyman, behavioral ecologist Simon Robson and ornithologist Glenn Chilton.

The most curious thing is that this would be his “second discovery”. In 1981, American biologist Adam Messer discovered 6 nests on Bacan, an island in the Indonesian province of the North Moluccas. The species was so rare that not even the locals knew it existed.

On February 17, 2019, 100 years after it was thought to be extinct, this turtle reappeared. This happened thanks to Giant Tortoise Restoration Initiative (GTRI)a project by the direction of the Galapagos National Park and the Galapagos Conservancy organization, which works exclusively to locate this species.

The approximately 100-year-old female tortoise was taken to the Baby Giant Turtle Center in Santa Cruz to be cared for, as, according to the IUCN, she is still in critical danger.

Thanks to biologist Nick Pilfold and his team, the Loisaba conservation area in Kenya received a series of cameras in early 2018, thus providing evidence that the panther still exists. They were able to see a female with the characteristics of melanism along with a male of normal color. The last time the animal was seen was 100 years ago. That’s why the species was considered extinct. Photographer Will Burrard-Lucas saw the animal for the first time in Laikipia nature reserve🇧🇷 The species is still endangered and on the IUCN list of vulnerable animals, but is no longer extinct.

A curious fact is that Wakanda, home of the superhero Black Panther, is in eastern Africa, close to Kenya, where the only leopards were seen. Leopards that exhibit melanism are called black panthers.

a fossil that still swims in the sea. There was no record of it other than from the Cretaceous period; those that did exist were in the form of fossils. It was not until 1938 that the species was rediscovered alive.

She has adapted to Earth changes in an incredible way. Today, there are 2 types of species, both endangered: the Indonesian coelacanth and the Comorian coelacanth. The first is on the list of vulnerable animals and the second is critically endangered, according to the IUCN. Some can measure up to 1.5 meters in length and weigh up to 68 kg. They live in deep water, from 150 to 300 meters deep.

This South American mammal looks like a wild boar and had a history similar to that of the coelacanth, because there was no record of it other than in fossils until 1970. In fact, it was discovered in 1930, thanks to the research of naturalist Carlos Rusconi, who described the fossils in their work The Argentinian fossil species of Tayassuidae and their relationships with those from Brazil and North America🇧🇷 It was thanks to the zoologist Ralph Wetzel that we were able to discover that the species is still alive, in an article published in the journal science called: Catagonus, an “extinct” peccary, alive in Paraguay (Catagonus, an ‘extinct’ peccary, living in Paraguay).

This beautiful pelagic bird spends most of its life flying over the oceans and almost became a legend when it was considered extinct. When Christopher Columbus sailed through Bermuda in 1492, there were around half a million pairs of the bird in the archipelago. Human exploitation and the pigs brought by the Spaniards were destroying their nests, causing the species to disappear little by little.

The good news is that nowadays they can be found in Bermuda, after 330 years of disappearance. The birds were rediscovered in the early 20th century but are still a threatened species according to the IUCN. Its survival was facilitated by the implementation of major conservation plans, initiated by David B. Wingatean ornithologist and naturalist who became Bermuda’s first conservation officer.

After a decade of disappearance, to the delight of biologists, the frog Gastrotheca cornuta reappeared in an Ecuadorian forest. She is called ‘horned’ because of the shape of her head. In addition, it has reproduction characteristics that resemble those of kangaroos: they carry eggs in pouches formed on their backs that, when opened, release already formed young, not tadpoles. It is currently in danger of extinction according to the IUCN.

The little mouse was declared extinct more than 100 years ago because it could not adapt to the changes caused by human intervention in its habitat and the presence of new predatory species.

It was discovered in 1843 and rediscovered in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, a protected national park in New South Wales, Australia. The species is considered vulnerable by the IUCN.

After movie release River, people thought that this animal was no longer threatened, which unfortunately did not happen. The media confused the macaw species, the hyacinth macaw, or Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus and the hyacinth macaw, or Cyanopsitta spixii. The first is extinct in the wild. The truth is that the birth of a great hyacinth macaw took place on December 26, 2018, according to the Association of Ornithophiles of Paraguay (ASORA), bringing great joy to the neighboring country, as the species is considered vulnerable according to the IUCN.

THE Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus It’s an intense blue. Only the eyes and beak are bright yellow. In addition, it is the largest macaw in the world and measures up to 1.10 meters from its beak to the tip of its tail. THE cyanopsitta spixiion the other hand, is smaller and only reaches 55 cm in length, has different shades of blue, the face is lighter and the beak is completely black in adults.

The reappearance of which species made you the happiest? Do you know other examples? Share in the comments.