Extinct Animals That Could Come Back

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.

Extinct animals that could come back. 1 The Caspian tiger or the Touran tiger. This extinct species of plains Zebra the Quagga once lived in South Africa. A T-Rex and other dangerous creatures arent on the VIP lis.

Extinct animals that could come back. 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. Scientists hope to bring them back thanks to the Siberian tiger that is almost identical.

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. One million species of animal and plant could disappear forever according to the UN. The dodo is perhaps the most famous extinct animal.

When the last one died in Poland in 1627 it was one of the first examples of an animals extinction being recorded. With our diets germs and diseases Neanderthals wouldnt last long. Here are five examples of what are often referred to as Lazarus species breeds that have seemingly come back from the dead.

10 Extinct Animals That Shouldnt Be Brought Back. To be considered endangered there must be fewer than 2500 mature snow leopards and they must be experiencing a high rate of decline. Technically its already been done.

To resurrect new zealands 11 extinct species three times as many endangered species would go extinct she writes. But these techniques can only be applied to species that have gone extinct very recently in the last decade or so. The Pyrenean ibex or bucardo recently became the first extinct animal to ever become un-extinct at least for seven minutes.