Extinct Animals That Could Come Back

A T-Rex and other dangerous creatures arent on the VIP lis.

Extinct animals that could come back. Sure in theory they should be able to adapt over time but there are tons of other issues that may come with bringing a species back from extinction. 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. In preparation for de-extinction The Long Now Foundation has listed several species that meet the criteria for coming back to life including the below.

When Cristobal Colon sailed past Bermuda in 1492 an estimated half-million pairs of these birds nested there. Extinct animals that could 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.

Before there were cattle as we know them today there were aurochs which were cowlike creatures bigger than elephants. Or it could be done by cloning carefully preserved non-reproductive cells. Yet conservation work is helping some to come back from the brink.

Scientists have found auroch genes in modern cattle breeds and theyre breeding those cattle in hopes of creating a new species called a Tauros that would be similar to their extinct. However by 1620 the excessively hunted bird was no longer seen and was presumed extinct. This is soo sad i what to save all animals.

4 extinct animals that have come back to life. To be considered endangered there must be fewer than 2500 mature snow leopards and they must be experiencing a high rate of decline. The Pyrenean ibex or bucardo recently became the first extinct animal to ever become un-extinct at least for seven minutes.

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. The last wild one was shot in 1870 and the last in captivity died in 1883. To resurrect new zealands 11 extinct species three times as many endangered species would go extinct she writes.