Extinct Animals That Could Come Back

Extinct animals that could come back.

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. 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. 10 Extinct Animals That Shouldnt Be Brought 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. The dodo is perhaps the most famous extinct animal. Either domestic chickens or prairie chickens could be surrogates for the extinct species.

Smilodon 10000 BC The Smilodon saber-toothed cat lived in North and South America at the end of the last glacial period 115000 11700 years ago although it had existed as a distinct species for about 25 million years. The last wild one was shot in 1870 and the last in captivity died in 1883. Here are five examples of what are often referred to as Lazarus species breeds that have seemingly come back from the dead.

With our diets germs and diseases Neanderthals wouldnt last long. 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. When Cristobal Colon sailed past Bermuda in 1492 an estimated half-million pairs of these birds nested there.

Also a fallen megafauna from the Quaternary Extinction this mammal went on scientists radars when a baby Woolly Rhino was found frozen in the Siberian Ice. Do you know that scientists are almost ready to bring back some species that have been long gone. For extinct animals like the mastodon that have been gone for hundreds or.

The largest subspecies Smilodon populator could reach 400 kg in weight three meters in length and 14 meters tall at the shoulder. 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. To resurrect new zealands 11 extinct species three times as many endangered species would go extinct she writes.