7 Believed Extinct Animals Still Alive

The recent sighting of an animal long thought to be extinct, or at least almost, proves that Mother Nature always has some surprises in store! So here's the big news: a black leopard has been photographed in Africa for the first time in over a century! And this really is a bombshell because black leopards are extremely rare.

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TIMESTAMPS:

Why is it black? 0:28

It's categorized as “Vulnerable”. Why? 0:58

Other animals that were rediscovered

Fish with legs 2:23

The dwarf fin whale 3:33

The giant earthworm 4:18

Pygmy elephants (Aww!) 5:31

The Fernandina giant tortoise 6:35

The tree lobster 7:44
Preview photo credit:
Black Leopard: By Burrard-Lucas wildlife photography http://burrard-lucas.com, Photographed with a Camtraptions camera trap www.camtraptions.com, Laikipia Wilderness Camp, Kenya, https://www.camtraptions.com/black-leopard.html

We'd like to thank Burrard Lucas http://burrard-lucas.com for all the photographs of black leopard provided for this video. Photographed with a Camtraptions camera trap www.camtraptions.com, Laikipia Wilderness Camp, Kenya, https://www.camtraptions.com/black-leopard.html

An adult specimen of Driloleirus americanus, or Giant Palouse earthworm, an Annelid originating from east Washington: By Chris Baugher - https://www.flickr.com/photos/82271859@N00/9546772625/, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37140323

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SUMMARY:
- The cat’s black coat is the result of melanism. This is a condition when the body has too much melanin, the pigment that determines your hair, skin, and eye color.
- In Africa, no one has been able to prove its existence for over 100 years. The last time a published photograph was taken was in 1909 in Ethiopia.
- The most incredible thing about coelacanths is that they’re considered a transitional step between actual fish and four-legged land creatures.
- Speaking of ocean dwellers, there’s another one that was considered extinct up until very recently: Omura’s whale, a.k.a. the dwarf fin whale. Before 2015, none of these whales had ever been found.
- The giant Palouse earthworm has supposedly been extinct since the 1980s. But scientists found one adult specimen in 2005.
- In 2008, the World Wildlife Fund (or WWF) made an astonishing discovery: high up in the mountains of Borneo there lives a whole colony of pygmy elephants that were thought to be extinct for almost two centuries!
- The Fernandina giant tortoise was believed to have died out by 1906, and no signs of it were ever seen until February 17, 2019. A female was discovered in the Galapagos Islands.

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