Extinct Animals That Come Back

Bees have long been talked about as a species that may go extinct relatively soon.

Extinct animals that come back. There are lots of good reasons to bring back extinct animals. Here are a few who have already pulled off this fantastic feat. 10 Animals That Came Back From Extinction - YouTube.

It was declared extinct a decade ago but scientists claimed to spot one in the river late last year. 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. The quagga is in fact a subspecies of the Plains Zebra Equus quagga.

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. 1 The Mountain Pygmy Possum. The aldabra rail first went extinct.

Certain species such as the Javan Elephant have gone from extinct to rediscovered and back again several times over. 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. It would involve recovering fragments of badly degraded DNA from ancient specimens and patching those fragments into the DNA of a close living relative.

Scientists have some ambitious projects underway to bring extinct species back to life including the long-gone woolly mammoth to the passenger pigeon. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Before there were cattle as we know them today there were aurochs which were cowlike creatures bigger than elephants.

Scientists have come close to bringing an extinct species back to life for the first time with the birth of a cloned pyrenean ibex a type of mountain goat that is believed to have died out. Although there are problems still to be solved the process is gradually becoming more feasible. The Quagga Project started in 1987 is an attempt to bring them back from extinction.