Extinct Animals That Could Come Back

The Quagga Project started in 1987 is an attempt to bring them back from extinction.

Extinct animals that could come back. 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. 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. This extinct species of plains Zebra the Quagga once lived in South Africa.

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. It evolved without any natural predators but the humans that arrived on their home island Mauritius took. 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.

Or it could be done by cloning carefully preserved non-reproductive cells. If people pushed plant and animals species into extinction perhaps we owe it to these species to try and bring them back. This is soo sad i what to save all animals.

To resurrect new zealands 11 extinct species three times as many endangered species would go extinct she writes. Threatened or damaged ecosystems could be restored with the help of certain now-extinct species. When Cristobal Colon sailed past Bermuda in 1492 an estimated half-million pairs of these birds nested there.

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. Yet conservation work is helping some to come back from the brink. For extinct animals like the mastodon that have been gone for hundreds or.

The Pyrenean ibex or bucardo recently became the first extinct animal to ever become un-extinct at least for seven minutes. A T-Rex and other dangerous creatures arent on the VIP lis. The largest subspecies Smilodon populator could reach 400 kg in weight three meters in length and 14 meters tall at the shoulder.