Extinct Animals That Turned Out To Be Alive

When an animal moves from the endangered species list to being officially extinct, it's undeniably a sad day. The creature has gone the way of the dinosaur and the dodo, but on occasion, scientists will discover that they were wrong. Sometimes, an animal that was thought to be extinct will show up somewhere remote, and we can rejoice that we have another chance to save it. From the prehistoric fish that experts thought had been extinct for millions of years to the extremely rare Australian bird that every ornithologist dreams of seeing, let's take a look at some extinct animals that turned out to be alive.