7 Animals We Used to Think Were Extinct (But Aren't!)
Species that no longer exist vastly outnumber those that currently populate the planet, but occasionally we rediscover a species we thought was extinct! We're conducting a survey of our viewers!...
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[♪INTRO] Throughout our planet’s history, billions of species have gone extinct. In fact, over 99% of the species that have ever existed, don’t anymore. Some of them disappeared long ago, leaving behind the occasional fossil to study. Others went the way of the dodo and were killed off either directly or indirectly by humans. But every once in a while, a creature we thought had kicked the bucket is found … still kicking. Here are seven animals that turned out to not be extinct after all. One of the most well-known examples of this phenomenon is the coelacanth, a kind of simple fish. Until the 1930s, we’d only seen it in fossils, and the fossil record suggested it died off not long before the non-avian dinosaurs did, over 65 million years ago....
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[♪INTRO] Throughout our planet’s history, billions of species have gone extinct. In fact, over 99% of the species that have ever existed, don’t anymore. Some of them disappeared long ago, leaving behind the occasional fossil to study. Others went the way of the dodo and were killed off either directly or indirectly by humans. But every once in a while, a creature we thought had kicked the bucket is found … still kicking. Here are seven animals that turned out to not be extinct after all. One of the most well-known examples of this phenomenon is the coelacanth, a kind of simple fish. Until the 1930s, we’d only seen it in fossils, and the fossil record suggested it died off not long before the non-avian dinosaurs did, over 65 million years ago....
