Are there any prehistoric creatures still alive?

Although dinosaurs, along with many other prehistoric creatures went extinct millions of years ago, there are some creatures that walked the Earth with them that still live today. The elephant shrews are small mammals that resemble rodents but are actually related to elephants.

What is the only prehistoric animal alive today?

Thought to have gone extinct 65 million years ago (along with the mass extinction of dinosaurs), the coelacanth (pronounced SEEL-uh-kanth) was rediscovered in 1938. The coelacanth is predicted to belong to a lineage that has been around for 360 million years and it is a fish unlike many others.

What creatures could still be alive?

10 Extinct Animals That May Still Be Alive

• Woolly Mammoth. These animals died about 4000 years back but few people claim that they saw this creature in real.
• Passenger Pigeon.
• Tasmanian Tiger.
• Baiji (Yangtze River Dophin)
• 5. Japanese Wolf.
• Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.
• Eastern Cougar.
• 8. Japanese River Otter.

What survived the ice age?

The Earth is still in the (most recent) Ice Age. Humans were (and still are) alive during the Ice Age. So were (are) plants such as juniper and the balsam fir. Deer, wolves, squirrels, and foxes were (are) also alive.

What is the creepiest creature on earth?

Based on our research, here are the ten creepiest animals in the world:

• Sea Squirt.
• Sea Snake.
• Northern Short-Tailed Shrew.
• GoblinShark.
• Blobfish.
• Shoebill Stork.
• Aye Aye.
• Goliath Bird-Eating Tarantula.

Do mammoths still exist?

During the last ice age, a period known as the Pleistocene (PLYS-toh-seen), woolly mammoths and many other large plant-eating animals roamed this land. Now, of course, mammoths are extinct.

Did any humans survive the ice age?

During the past 200,000 years, homo sapiens have survived two ice ages. While this fact shows humans have withstood extreme temperature changes in the past, humans have never seen anything like what is occurring now.