Extinct Animals That Could Come Back

The Quagga Project started in 1987 is an attempt to bring them back from extinction.

Extinct animals that could come back. This extinct species of plains Zebra the Quagga once lived in South Africa. To be considered endangered there must be fewer than 2500 mature snow leopards and they must be experiencing a high rate of decline. 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.

The largest subspecies Smilodon populator could reach 400 kg in weight three meters in length and 14 meters tall at the shoulder. Then in 2009 a goat gave birth to a cloned Pyrenean ibex in a government-funded miracle that marked the first time any species had been brought back from extinction. The last wild one was shot in 1870 and the last in captivity died in 1883.

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. Threatened or damaged ecosystems could be restored with the help of certain now-extinct species. Here are five examples of what are often referred to as Lazarus species breeds that have seemingly come back from the dead.

However by 1620 the excessively hunted bird was no longer seen and was presumed extinct. One million species of animal and plant could disappear forever according to the UN. The Pyrenean ibex or bucardo recently became the first extinct animal to ever become un-extinct at least for seven minutes.

Yet conservation work is helping some to come back from the brink. This is soo sad i what to save all animals. 1 The Caspian tiger or the Touran tiger.

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. Technically its already been done. Before there were cattle as we know them today there were aurochs which were cowlike creatures bigger than elephants.