Extinct Animals Rediscovered 2019
Lost to science since 1981 and thought by some to be extinct Wallaces giant bee Megachile pluto has been rediscovered in Indonesia by an international team of scientists and conservationists.
Extinct animals rediscovered 2019. Dia 09112019 Ovo trincadoresolvido com sucesso teste. From wild dogs to horned frogs all manner of animals are still capable of keeping out. A specimen of the giant Galapagos tortoise Chelonoidis phantasticus thought to have gone extinct.
This is a likely reason why these animals. But amid the catastrophe moments of hope come in the form of species once thought to have been lost forever being rediscovered decades later. Here are some other fascinating finds.
The rediscovered reptile is just one of many lost animals to be found in recent years. The Fernandina Tortoise. First discovered in 1859 by the prominent scientist Alfred Russel Wallace researchers could not locate it again and it was presumed extinct.
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. 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 Laotian rock rat is a rodent species that belongs to an ancient fossil family that went extinct 11 million years ago.
Scientists Insert Genes From The Woolly Mammoth Into An. 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. These animals once believed to be extinct.
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. An adult baiji can grow to six feet long and can weigh around 180 pounds. Living in the Yangtze River in China the baiji was thought to be extinct but was rediscovered in 2006.