Extinct Animals That Could Come Back

There are some extinct species such as the woolly mammoth shown above that may be brought back to life if scientists can overcome some practical hurdles and thorny ethical questions.

Extinct animals that could come back. That goes for all these other animals were bringing back too. To be considered endangered there must be fewer than 2500 mature snow leopards and they must be experiencing a high rate of decline. Smilodon 10000 BC The Smilodon saber-toothed cat lived in North and South America at the end of the last glacial period 115000 11700 years ago although it had existed as a distinct species for about 25 million years.

The dodo is perhaps the most famous extinct animal. The last time anyone recorded a sighting of the Somali elephant shrew was almost 50 years ago after which it was assumed to have become extinct. However by 1620 the excessively hunted bird was no longer seen and was presumed extinct.

Scientists hope to bring them back thanks to the Siberian tiger that is almost identical. The last wild one was shot in 1870 and the last in captivity died in 1883. 4 extinct animals that have come back to life.

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. Also a fallen megafauna from the Quaternary Extinction this mammal went on scientists radars when a baby Woolly Rhino was found frozen in the Siberian Ice.

4 extinct animals that have come back to life. The difference means simply that the animals have gone from very high risk to high risk of extinction in the wild the New York Times reported. Or it could be done by cloning carefully preserved non-reproductive cells.

But these techniques can only be applied to species that have gone extinct very recently in the last decade or so. For extinct animals like the mastodon that have been gone for hundreds or. Why scientists would want to bring this animal back to life is the real question.