Animals Who Survived Extinction and Got Rediscovered

Published on January 28, 2018
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Sahul Reef Snake

This snake is also known as the ‘short-nosed sea snake’. Because this snake has a slow reproduction cycle, with females not even producing eggs every year, experts worry that it will become completely extinct without human’s positive impact.

Sahul Reef Snake

Sahul Reef Snake

Yellow-Tailed Woolly Monkey

At the beginning of the 1800’s this unique monkey was discovered by scientists, but then it completely disappeared off the map. That disappearance lasted until 1974, and although we’ve ‘found’ it, it is still a critically endangered animal.

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Yellow Tailed Woolly Monkey

Yellow-Tailed Woolly Monkey