Believed Extinct Animals Still Alive Today

Believed Extinct Animals Still Alive Today

Charlie from Top 10s counts down the #Top10 Believed Extinct Animals Still Alive Today. Here are some extinct animals that are still alive today, as well as some animals which have gone extinct, but scientists are trying to bring back to life using fossils, DNA and new scientific techniques!

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[Gloria-rovn]

A black panther is the melanistic colour variant of the LEOPARD, they are NOT EXTINCT.

[aussiepeasant]

Like many native animals in Australia, the Thylacine is a marsupial, with a pouch. It is not a canine, so that blows the wolf theory.

[joeytish]

The mammoth sighting was a bear that had a fish in its mouth

[camlab]

Wolves could not be used to bring back the tasmanian tiger as thylacine were marsupials

[CVoyage]

As I understand it, a black leopard is a color mutation of the normal leopard. It's not a different species so it can't go extinct. The genes for black panthers of various species have existed for a long time.

[clwbchbabycakes]

Megaladon teeth were not the size of a human being - they're the size of a human hand. I live in Florida and we find them quite often.

[AcousticKitty]

the Tasmanian Tiger is the one I've always wanted brought back the most.

[martinharris]

Nobody thought frilled sharks (of which there are many different species) were exctint! They are common deep sea fish. It's rare to see them in shallow water.
The video of the alleged "Mammoth" is a bear with a salmon in its mouth. The current climate of Siberia is too cold for elephants of any sort. Mammoths lived in temperate climates like Siberia and Alaska used to be before the Younger Dryas extinction event that wiped them out.
No one thought Sturgeons went extinct.
Black leopards are melanistic members of the leopard family.
Ceolocanth you get a point for.
No one thought sponges went extinct.

[katiaazizi]

Some of these animals would be cool to bring back but some wouldn’t be good to bring back.

[twoheadedtasmanian]

Woolly mammoth actually lived in a warm climate not in the snow. Fossils records of a woolly mammoth stomach showed food from a warm climate and wouldn’t grow in a cold climate. This woolly mammoth was flash frozen so the food was still in its mouth and hadn’t been ingested in its stomach. Just because they are found in a cold climate now doesn’t mean at the time it was that way.

[jaeboogie]

Frilled sharks rediscovered off the coast of Japan in 2007.

Japanese cooks: Not for long 🎣 🔪🍣

[SiddhantKaul-um]

12:45 thylacine are marsupials, not canines. They are more related to a opossum then a wolf.

[iris]

28:38 So now I know why goats and sheep can be so aggressive at times😂. You would think that big creature would have been more like an ancestor of the wolf

[baddog]

Anything with a horn will be hunted by poachers just like any animals with horns already here, you can bring them back but scumbags will be scumbags 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Cohowarren]

The Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus: dog-headed pouched-dog) is a large carnivorous marsupial) is not a wolf at all.

[charliebliesner]

The main living relative of a giant elk would be a normal elk

[Callmethelamp]

Black leopards are not a species of leopard. It's a genetic mutation known as "melanistic". Similar to albinism, except it causes an excess in darker pigmentation.

[craigmooring]

Who told you that wolves would be involved in the restoration of Thylacines? Their resemblance to wolves is a matter of convergence. Wolves are mammals and not closely related to marsupials like the Tasmanian Tiger.

[MrChadperkins]

Wooly Mammoth were about the same size of the modern African Bush Elephant.