Extinct Animals That Come Back

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.

Extinct animals that come back. 17 Incredible Animals That Came Back from the Brink of Extinction Lela Nargi Updated. 10 Animals That Came Back From Extinction. The quagga is in fact a subspecies of the Plains Zebra Equus quagga.

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. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. 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.

Then in August 2020 a team of researchers and academics reported that these tiny creatures were alive and well. Here are five examples of what are often referred to as Lazarus species breeds that have seemingly come back from the dead. Still those animals that are no longer extinct give us some hope for the future.

The Caspian Tiger was officially declared extinct in the 1970s. Bees have long been talked about as a species that may go extinct relatively soon. In a first step toward resurrecting the mammoth researchers from Russia and South Korea are working to bring back another extinct animal the Lena.

The aldabra rail first went extinct. 1 The Mountain Pygmy Possum. 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.

1 Woolly Mammoth This fantastic beast was lost in the last Ice Age thousands of years ago presumably by hunters but studies reveal melting temperature may have also driven them to extinction. They are exint for a reason. You wake up eat breakfast take a shower and go to work.