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. 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. Loss of habitat remains a significant threat. Extinct animals that could come back.

One million species of animal and plant could disappear forever according to the UN. 4 extinct animals that have come back to life. This is soo sad i what to save all animals.

Either domestic chickens or prairie chickens could be surrogates for the extinct species. 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. Yet conservation work is helping some to come back from the brink.

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. In early 2000 a tree landed on the last living Pyrenean ibex turning that proud creature into just one more statistic on an ever-growing list of extinct species. 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. To resurrect new zealands 11 extinct species three times as many endangered species would go extinct she writes. Camelops is an extinct genus of a camel that once roamed western North America where it disappeared at the end of the Pleistocene about 10000 years ago.

De-extinction could be a big step forward for genetic engineering. 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. 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.