Extinct Animals That Come Back

They are exint for a reason.

Extinct animals that come back. Since the first one was discovered scientists began tracking the animal trying to find more. Still those animals that are no longer extinct give us some hope for the future. Before there were cattle as we know them today there were aurochs which were cowlike creatures bigger than elephants.

It was declared extinct a decade ago but scientists claimed to spot one in the river late last year. Here are a few who have already pulled off this fantastic feat. Plus it would bring along with it a number of complicated legalities relating to.

The quagga is in fact a subspecies of the Plains Zebra Equus quagga. 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. Seven minutes later the baby clone died and the Pyrenean ibex was granted the further distinction of being the only species that had managed to go extinct twice.

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. Hunting habitat destruction of their swamps and the introduction of predators such as foxes dogs and dingoes all led to their demise. 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.

Variola better known in modern times as smallpox was an infectious disease that plagued humanity throughout recorded his. The Quagga Project started in 1987 is an attempt to bring them back from extinction. Although there are problems still to be solved the process is gradually becoming more feasible.

The Caspian Tiger was officially declared extinct in the 1970s. It would involve recovering fragments of badly degraded DNA from ancient specimens and patching those fragments into the DNA of a close living relative. 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.