Extinct Animals That Could Come Back

Do you know that scientists are almost ready to bring back some species that have been long gone.

Extinct animals that could come back. Threatened or damaged ecosystems could be restored with the help of certain now-extinct species. One of the most famous animals that were extinct but came back the Bermuda Petrel is a medium-sized seabird found in Bermuda. The largest subspecies Smilodon populator could reach 400 kg in weight three meters in length and 14 meters tall at the shoulder.

Either domestic chickens or prairie chickens could be surrogates for the extinct species. Why scientists would want to bring this animal back to life is the real question. The dodo is perhaps the most famous extinct animal.

To be considered endangered there must be fewer than 2500 mature snow leopards and they must be experiencing a high rate of decline. De-extinction could be a big step forward for genetic engineering. But these techniques can only be applied to species that have gone extinct very recently in the last decade or so.

Extinct animals that could come back. 4 extinct animals that have come back to life. The last wild one was shot in 1870 and the last in captivity died in 1883.

Here are five examples of what are often referred to as Lazarus species breeds that have seemingly come back from the dead. For extinct animals like the mastodon that have been gone for hundreds or. It evolved without any natural predators but the humans that arrived on their home island Mauritius took.

Extinct since the 1960s it was one of the largest cats in Turkey but also in many countries of Central Asia such as Iran or northwestern China. There are some extinct species such as the woolly mammoth shown above that may be brought back to life if scientists can overcome some practical hurdles and thorny ethical questions. 1 The Caspian tiger or the Touran tiger.