Extinct Animals That Come Back

17 Incredible Animals That Came Back from the Brink of Extinction Lela Nargi Updated.

Extinct animals that come back. It would involve recovering fragments of badly degraded DNA from ancient specimens and patching those fragments into the DNA of a close living relative. 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. Hunting habitat destruction of their swamps and the introduction of predators such as foxes dogs and dingoes all led to their demise.

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. The Quagga Project started in 1987 is an attempt to bring them back from extinction. The quagga is in fact a subspecies of the Plains Zebra Equus quagga.

The aldabra rail first went extinct. 10 Animals That Came Back From Extinction. Since the first one was discovered scientists began tracking the animal trying to find more.

22 2021 Efforts to protect multiple species have yielded great successes in the past several decades. It was declared extinct a decade ago but scientists claimed to spot one in the river late last year. 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. But some canny creatures seem to have 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. 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. Extinct animals could come back.