12 Extinct Creatures People Believe Are Still Out There!

From elusive big cats that reappeared after many years to some mysterious sightings of prehistoric creatures, here are 12 extinct animals that people believe still exist. Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/katrinaexplained/ Subscribe For New Videos! http://goo.gl/UIzLeB Check out these videos you might like: Unbelievable Animals SAVING Other Animals! 🐯https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxehUWvMr38 LARGEST Animals Ever Discovered! 🐙https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yj7F_tPYsU Wild Animals That SAVED Human Lives! 🐻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mllqeVSsIl0 12. Loch Ness Monster Rumors of a mysterious creature living in Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands have been around for 1500 years. Around 500AD, the Romans were invading Scotland which was inhabited by fierce tribes they called the Picts. The Picts carved all kinds of animal figures and everything seems to be easily recognizable except for one creature. 11. Formosan Clouded Leopard Native to Taiwan this leopard was considered extinct but was believed to have been spotted for the first time in 30 years! It’s nice to have some good news these days! Declared extinct in 2013, the Formosan clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa brachyura) is believed to be a subspecies of the clouded leopard, a Himalayan feline that has been listed as “vulnerable” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species since 2008. 10. Pondicherry Shark Also called the long-nosed shark, the Pondicherry shark is a small, stout, gray shark that dwells in the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans. It typically grows no more than 3.3 feet (1 meter) long and is identifiable by its characteristic black-tipped fins. 9. Sabre Tooth Cat Sabre Tooth Cats were around until about 11,000 years ago. They were very large creatures, with bear-like bodies, and the recognisable curved canine teeth that protruded from their mouths. They were fearsome predators, feasting on elephants, rhinos, and other large mammals of the time. They went extinct at around the same time as many other species from the ice age. It’s believed they were hunted by early humans and that they ran out of the huge food sources that they needed to survive. 8. The Giant Ground Sloth While sloths these days are just about the cutest, nicest things ever, their ancient relative known as the Megatherium was something else entirely. Also known as Giant Ground Sloths, they roamed the Americas for about 5.3 million years before they are believed to have gone extinct during the last ice age. 7. Javan Tiger Legendary for its gigantic paws and thin stripes, the Javan tiger, one of the nine tiger subspecies, was once abundant on the Indonesian island of Java. Its numbers dwindled rapidly starting in the 18th century, when Dutch colonizers put a bounty on the animal’s head. Javan tiger sightings grew few and far between by the 1940s, and the last confirmed sighting of one was in 1976. 6. Dracula Monkey Also known as Miller’s grizzled langur, the Dracula monkey is one of the world’s rarest and least-studied primates. Experts believed that this elusive, vampirish species went extinct by 2010, when the last five known specimens vanished. By then, a large portion of the Dracula monkey’s natural habitat in Borneo’s Kutai National Park was destroyed by illegal logging, fires, and other destructive human activities. Pretty much everyone thought it was gone! 5. Tasmanian Tiger The distinctive thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), also called the Tasmanian tiger, is one of the largest carnivorous marsupials. It evolved around four million years ago and went extinct around 3,000 years ago on the Australian mainland. The last known thylacine, Benjamin, was captured in Tasmania in 1933 and passed away on the island at Hobart Zoo in 1936. 4. Megalania Megalania prisca was a huge and deadly monitor lizard that lived in Australia until about 40,000 years ago. They grew anywhere from 12 to 25 feet long, and weighed from 500 pounds to 4,000 pounds!! Paleontologists are still working on it, but it still would make the Komodo Dragon a lightweight. 3. Zanzibar Leopard Once abundant on Unguja Island in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago, the Zanzibar leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) was the largest apex predator and terrestrial carnivore within its range. 2. Wallace’s Giant Bee As the world’s largest bee species, the Wallace’s giant bee (Megachile pluto) is the size of a human thumb and roughly four times bigger than a honeybee, with a two-and-a-half inch (6.4 cm) wingspan. 1. Florida Panther There are no known big cat species in the U.S. matching the description of a black panther, which is a term that can be applied to pretty much any melanistic variant of a wild feline, yet there have been many reported sightings, especially in Florida. #extinct #creatures #originsexplained