Extinct Animals That Could Come Back

However by 1620 the excessively hunted bird was no longer seen and was presumed extinct.

Extinct animals that could come back. The Pyrenean ibex or bucardo recently became the first extinct animal to ever become un-extinct at least for seven minutes. De-extinction could be a big step forward for genetic engineering. 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.

Or it could be done by cloning carefully preserved non-reproductive cells. The Quagga Project started in 1987 is an attempt to bring them back from extinction. Technically its already been done.

This is soo sad i what to save all animals. 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. Before there were cattle as we know them today there were aurochs which were cowlike creatures bigger than elephants.

When Cristobal Colon sailed past Bermuda in 1492 an estimated half-million pairs of these birds nested there. But these techniques can only be applied to species that have gone extinct very recently in the last decade or so. One of the most famous animals that were extinct but came back the Bermuda Petrel is a medium-sized seabird found in Bermuda.

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. Do you know that scientists are almost ready to bring back some species that have been long gone. The last wild one was shot in 1870 and the last in captivity died in 1883.

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. 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. Loss of habitat remains a significant threat.