Extinct Animals That Come Back

Here are a few who have already pulled off this fantastic feat.

Extinct animals that come back. 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 a first step toward resurrecting the mammoth researchers from Russia and South Korea are working to bring back another extinct animal the Lena. The aldabra rail first went extinct.

1 The Mountain Pygmy Possum. 1 Woolly Mammoth This fantastic beast was lost in the last Ice Age thousands of years ago presumably by hunters but studies reveal melting temperature may have also driven them to extinction. The Quagga Project started in 1987 is an attempt to bring them back from extinction.

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 would involve recovering fragments of badly degraded DNA from ancient specimens and patching those fragments into the DNA of a close living relative. 10 Animals That Came Back From Extinction.

Seven minutes later the baby clone died and the Pyrenean ibex was granted the further distinction of being the only species that had managed to go extinct twice. If an extinct animal were brought back to life in the lab the authors point out that it would still lack many of a species key characteristics such as epigenetics environment and social groups. Certain species such as the Javan Elephant have gone from extinct to rediscovered and back again several times over.

The Caspian Tiger was officially declared extinct in the 1970s. You wake up eat breakfast take a shower and go to work. For extinct animals like the mastodon that have been gone for hundreds or even thousands of years its much harder.

They are exint for a reason. Who knows what species might rise from the grave next. Since the first one was discovered scientists began tracking the animal trying to find more.