Animals Thought to be Extinct Found Alive

by Jhaneel Lockhart

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Omura’s whale

Image: Wikimedia Commons

The Omura’s whale is the rarest species of whale on earth. In fact, scientists had only seen dead specimens that washed up on beaches before biologists captured video of the whales in 2013.

They were able to identify 44 groups of the elusive mammals, giving hope to the marine conservationists who previously considered it extinct.