Extinct Animals That Are Coming Back To Life
Although not yet extinct due to a captive breeding programme that brought them back from the brink in 1981 the most endangered animal on American books may provide some key answers for other near extinct species.
Extinct animals that are coming back to life. 10 Animals That Came Back From Extinction - YouTube. Scientists have some ambitious projects underway to bring extinct species back to life including the long-gone woolly mammoth to the passenger pigeon. De-extinction the science of bringing back extinct life is the subject of the April 2013 cover story of National Geographic magazine.
Several attempts have been made to regrow dead and extinct animals so far with little success. SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE TOP 5 BEST. T he extinct Tasmanian tiger has been brought back to life.
Yes 15 species came back from extinctionthe saber tooth tiger the california condor the bermuda petrel the woolly mammoth and few others in the list. In a unique and surprising announcement scientists revealed that they are now planning to bring back to life certain animals which have been extinct for thousands of. Bringing extinct animals back to life is a tantalizing idea for many people.
Backbreeding genetic engineering and cloning. When the last one died in Poland in 1627 it was one of the first examples of an animals extinction being recorded. There are three main ways of bringing back extinct species according to the Stanford researchers.
Once only an idea in science fiction today it is poised to become reality. If de-extinction technology is finally realized maybe well never need to worry about it happening. The large meat-eating marsupials were hunted to extinction and the last died in captivity in 1936.
Researchers working to bring back animals like the passenger pigeon and woolly mammoth discuss the implications of their work. Bees have long been talked about as a species that may go extinct relatively soon. But now they could be one of the first species to go through de-extinction.