Extinct Animals That Could Come Back

Then in 2009 a goat gave birth to a cloned Pyrenean ibex in a government-funded miracle that marked the first time any species had been brought back from extinction.

Extinct animals that could come back. The Quagga Project started in 1987 is an attempt to bring them back from extinction. But these techniques can only be applied to species that have gone extinct very recently in the last decade or so. To resurrect new zealands 11 extinct species three times as many endangered species would go extinct she writes.

A T-Rex and other dangerous creatures arent on the VIP lis. Scientists hope to bring them back thanks to the Siberian tiger that is almost identical. De-extinction could be a big step forward for genetic engineering.

Camelops extinction was part of a larger North American die-off in which native horses mastodons and other camelids also died out - possibly from global climate change and hunting by the Clovis people. 1 The Caspian tiger or the Touran tiger. Before there were cattle as we know them today there were aurochs which were cowlike creatures bigger than elephants.

Then in August 2020 a team of researchers and academics reported that these tiny creatures were alive and well. Scientists have found auroch genes in modern cattle breeds and theyre breeding those cattle in hopes of creating a new species called a Tauros that would be similar to their extinct. The dodo is perhaps the most famous extinct animal.

One of the most famous animals that were extinct but came back the Bermuda Petrel is a medium-sized seabird found in Bermuda. This extinct species of plains Zebra the Quagga once lived in South Africa. 4 extinct animals that have come back to life.

However by 1620 the excessively hunted bird was no longer seen and was presumed extinct. Threatened or damaged ecosystems could be restored with the help of certain now-extinct species. Yet conservation work is helping some to come back from the brink.