Extinct Animals That Could Come Back

One million species of animal and plant could disappear forever according to the UN.

Extinct animals that could come back. The difference means simply that the animals have gone from very high risk to high risk of extinction in the wild the New York Times reported. 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. Threatened or damaged ecosystems could be restored with the help of certain now-extinct species.

In early 2000 a tree landed on the last living Pyrenean ibex turning that proud creature into just one more statistic on an ever-growing list of extinct species. 4 extinct animals that have come back to life. To resurrect new zealands 11 extinct species three times as many endangered species would go extinct she writes.

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. A T-Rex and other dangerous creatures arent on the VIP lis. Loss of habitat remains a significant threat.

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. 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. Camelops is an extinct genus of a camel that once roamed western North America where it disappeared at the end of the Pleistocene about 10000 years ago.

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. 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. But these techniques can only be applied to species that have gone extinct very recently in the last decade or so.

That goes for all these other animals were bringing back too. Before there were cattle as we know them today there were aurochs which were cowlike creatures bigger than elephants. This extinct species of plains Zebra the Quagga once lived in South Africa.