A Lazarus species or taxon that has been thought to be extinct, was rediscovered truly alive. Coelecanth fish species is probably the most famous example of which was deemed to be extinct but was found to be still there, but this list will show the sequence of a new species - a species considered extinct, but still there and alive. In a list compiled listverse group includes species of mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles.
1. Banggai crow
Corvus unicolor
Not recorded since 1885
Corvus unicolor
Not recorded since 1885
Found again: 2007 (confirmed 2009)
Current status: Critically Endangered
Current status: Critically Endangered
Once again, this being known to scientists only by a few specimens were taken from an unknown island in the Indonesian archipelago Banggai, circa 1880's. There is no evidence that birds continue to survive after that.Unconfirmed sightings in 1991 did not lead to anything more conclusive though reports that the birds were seen on Peleng Island continued.
During the survey there in 2007 in August, Ornithologist from Indonesia Mochamad Indrawan capture and photograph the bird, but confirmation that these animals really are new Banggai Crow was in 2009 when Pamela C Rasmussen of the American Museum of Natural History analyzed the recent discoveries and compare it with the existing specimens in museums.Current population is estimated at approximately 500 individuals and Mochamad Indrawan now involved efforts to maintain and protect these species are often hunted and consumed by the local population.
2. New Zealand Storm
PetrelOceanites maorianus
Considered extinct: 1850
Found again: 2003
Current status: Critically Endangered
This small sea bird, similar to other animals on this list, had only been known to scientists by a small number of specimens. thought to be extinct since the 1850s. Rediscovery be interesting because it shows that the picture is ambiguous can cause more promising results. In early 2003, a few photos taken from the Coromandel Peninsula New Zealand North Island, and was followed at the end of the year with good quality photographs and videos of about 10 birds in the Hauraki Gulf. Live specimens captured in the area about two years later, and they still appear from time to time there. Population currently unknown and scientists have yet to find the location of breeding birds.
3. Terror Skink
Phoboscincus bocourti
Not recorded since the 1870's
Found again: 2003
Current status: Threatened
Little is known about these animals until a decade ago, known to scientists from only one specimen was found in 1876. Both of these specimens and found recently located on Ile de Pin in New Caledonia.In 2003, a live specimen was found by Ivan Ineich of National Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
The creature was filmed and photographed before being released, and a further individual was found by Ineich on the uninhabited island in 2005.The current population is unknown but estimated at less than 250 individuals and is considered endangered as although there is no human threat, the island is prone to wild fires and tsunamis.
4. La Palma Giant
LizardGallotia auaritae
Considered Extinct: 500 years ago
Found again: 2007
Current status: Critically Endangered
The scientists do not seem to be able to choose the exact date for the extinction of these creatures but they agree that these reptiles began to decline around the time humans began to inhabit the Canary Islands.Once again, rats played their role in reducing the animals in the population, as well as human consumption and loss of habitat.
These animals are believed to have become extinct about 500 years ago. but was rediscovered in 2007 when Luis Enrique Minguez, a researcher at the wildlife institution IREC photographed the creature while creeping up. Further research concluded this is a giant lizard la palma.Interestingly, two other extinct reptiles allegedly recovered also in the Canary Islands, El Hierro Giant Lizard in 1974 and La Gomera Giant Lizards in 1996.
5. Cuban Solenodon
Solenodon cubanus
Last seen: 1890
Officially declared extinct: 1970
Found again: 2003Current status: Threatened
In 2003 a Cuban Solenedon captured, filmed, studied for two days and released back into the wild, but previously was named Alejandrito. Alejandrito only Cuban Solenedon to-37 that have been recorded.
Small venomous creature is endemic to Cuba and was originally discovered by German naturalist Wilhelm Peters in 1861, no specimens have been found since 1890, and the creature was feared extinct in 1970. 3 specimens found in 1974/75 but there is little information about the specimens and no more sightings until 2003.No further living specimens have been found since 2003, but one dead specimen found in 2005.
6. Mice Pinus
BavariaMicrotus bavaricus
Considered extinct: in 1962
Found again: 2000/2001
Current status: Critically Endangered
The rediscovery of this little mouse, in the Bavarian Alps, Austria and Italy, the interesting because it shows how long sometimes for a creature previously considered extinct to be recognized as existing.Mammal was last recorded in 1962 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, which at the time was known as the only location live mice. It is feared extinct in the 1980s when the last inhabited grassland built asphalt on it.
However, populations of animals were found in Tyrol Austria in 1976-1977, but has not been confirmed as a species of voles Pine Bavaria until 2000. Incidentally, the next year, Frederike Spitzenberger, a research scientist Vienna, found living specimens in the trap and further DNA tests proved that this creature is Bavarian pine mice.
Rat population continues to decline and is now less than 50 individuals have been collected. These animals are considered to be locally extinct in Germany and found only in one location in Rofan Mountains, North Tyrol, Austria.
7. Painted Frog
Atelopus ebenoides
Considered extinct: in 1995
Found again: 2006
Current status: Critically Endangered
Only native Colombia, this amphibian, before the rediscovery, was last seen in 1995 and is believed to have been victims of Chytridiomycosis fungal disease that has contributed to the global decline in almost all species of amphibians.Attempts to locate this species proved fruitless until May 2006, when it was discovered by Professor Carlos Rocha and a team of researchers from the University of Pedagogy and Technology of Colombia.This rediscovery gave hope to scientists that some amphibians were developing resistance to fungal diseases of adaptation that.
8. Kokanee Black
Oncorhynchus uninformed kawamurae
Considered extinct: Year 1940
Found again: 2010
Current status: Limited Information
This Japanese fish, salmon subspecies, considered extinct in 1940 when only the natives make hydro power project on Lake Tazawa original habitat of this fish, so that the lake water becomes acidicAlthough the transfer of fish eggs effort ever made to Lake Saiko about 300 miles away, is considered to have failed until 2010 when scientist Tetsuji Nakabo and a team of researchers at Kyoto University found living specimens in Lake Saiko.
9. Lord Howe Stick Insect
Dryococelus australis
Thought extinct: 1930
Found again: 2001
Current status: Critically Endangered
This is a great stick insect was dubbed "the rarest insect in the world" on the recovery, only 30 individuals were found. They were rediscovered on one small uninhabited island called Balls Pyramid in the Lord Howe Islands.
This giant winged insects used very often found in these islands, but the population is declining, after rats landed with a supply ship SS makambo stranded there. So that these insects become the main food of the rats began to become rampant.Hope that there are animal species that survived the extinction back there, when a new specimen was found by hikers have died in 1960.
Live specimen was found in February 2001. Currently there are about 450 known species are still alive, some returned to their original habitat of Lord Howe Island.There is also a plan to eradicate the rat population to give the giant insect to breed.
10. Part Woodpecker
IvoryCampephilus principalis
Considered Extinct: at Circa 1944
Current status: Unknown so far has not been very convincing evidence of its existence and no specimens, either alive or dead, has been arrested. IUCN sign up this bird in the status of endangered but the American Birding Association describes the bird is likely extinct.
Conclusive evidence last recorded presence of birds in the United States was in 1944, but was seen in Cuba late 1987.
Since the 1990s there were many expeditions into the Louisiana bayous where the bird lived, while sound and video recordings have been made, it is still considered inconclusive,. While some scientists believe the birds are still alive, with no evidence of ivory-billed woodpecker's status remains a mystery.
as quoted from various sources
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