Extinct Animals That Could Come Back

The dodo is perhaps the most famous extinct animal.

Extinct animals that could come back. Then in August 2020 a team of researchers and academics reported that these tiny creatures were alive and well. Technically its already been done. 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.

That goes for all these other animals were bringing back too. Do you know that scientists are almost ready to bring back some species that have been long gone. One of the most famous animals that were extinct but came back the Bermuda Petrel is a medium-sized seabird found in Bermuda.

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. Scientists hope to bring them back thanks to the Siberian tiger that is almost identical. If people pushed plant and animals species into extinction perhaps we owe it to these species to try and bring them back.

Yet conservation work is helping some to come back from the brink. But these techniques can only be applied to species that have gone extinct very recently in the last decade or so. 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.

It evolved without any natural predators but the humans that arrived on their home island Mauritius took. 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. The Pyrenean ibex or bucardo recently became the first extinct animal to ever become un-extinct at least for seven minutes.

This extinct species of plains Zebra the Quagga once lived in South Africa. Loss of habitat remains a significant threat. To be considered endangered there must be fewer than 2500 mature snow leopards and they must be experiencing a high rate of decline.