Extinct Animals That Could Come Back

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.

Extinct animals that could come back. Loss of habitat remains a significant threat. The last wild one was shot in 1870 and the last in captivity died in 1883. Technically its already been done.

Before there were cattle as we know them today there were aurochs which were cowlike creatures bigger than elephants. Extinct animals that could come back. 10 Extinct Animals That Shouldnt Be Brought Back.

Why scientists would want to bring this animal back to life is the real question. It evolved without any natural predators but the humans that arrived on their home island Mauritius took. With our diets germs and diseases Neanderthals wouldnt last long.

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 Quagga Project started in 1987 is an attempt to bring them back from extinction. Here are five examples of what are often referred to as Lazarus species breeds that have seemingly come back from the dead.

Either domestic chickens or prairie chickens could be surrogates for the extinct species. When Cristobal Colon sailed past Bermuda in 1492 an estimated half-million pairs of these birds nested there. 4 extinct animals that have come back to life.

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. Extinct since the 1960s it was one of the largest cats in Turkey but also in many countries of Central Asia such as Iran or northwestern China. If people pushed plant and animals species into extinction perhaps we owe it to these species to try and bring them back.