Extinct Animals That Come Back

Certain species such as the Javan Elephant have gone from extinct to rediscovered and back again several times over.

Extinct animals that come back. This freshwater dolphin is known as the Baiji and lived in the Yangtze River in China. 22 2021 Efforts to protect multiple species have yielded great successes in the past several decades. 1 The Mountain Pygmy Possum.

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. Variola better known in modern times as smallpox was an infectious disease that plagued humanity throughout recorded his. Then in August 2020 a team of researchers and academics reported that these tiny creatures were alive and well.

Before there were cattle as we know them today there were aurochs which were cowlike creatures bigger than elephants. 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. It would involve recovering fragments of badly degraded DNA from ancient specimens and patching those fragments into the DNA of a close living relative.

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. If playback doesnt begin shortly try. Since the first one was discovered scientists began tracking the animal trying to find more.

The Quagga Project started in 1987 is an attempt to bring them back from extinction. The aldabra rail first went extinct. Extinct animals could come back.

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. 17 Incredible Animals That Came Back from the Brink of Extinction Lela Nargi Updated. Hunting habitat destruction of their swamps and the introduction of predators such as foxes dogs and dingoes all led to their demise.