Extinct Animals That Could Come Back

4 extinct animals that have come back to life.

Extinct animals that could come back. When Cristobal Colon sailed past Bermuda in 1492 an estimated half-million pairs of these birds nested there. 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. Yet conservation work is helping some to come back from the brink.

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. Why scientists would want to bring this animal back to life is the real question. Either domestic chickens or prairie chickens could be surrogates for the extinct species.

One million species of animal and plant could disappear forever according to the UN. One of the most famous animals that were extinct but came back the Bermuda Petrel is a medium-sized seabird found in Bermuda. For extinct animals like the mastodon that have been gone for hundreds or.

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. 4 extinct animals that have come back to life. 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.

1 The Caspian tiger or the Touran tiger. The largest subspecies Smilodon populator could reach 400 kg in weight three meters in length and 14 meters tall at the shoulder. Before there were cattle as we know them today there were aurochs which were cowlike creatures bigger than elephants.

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. Then in August 2020 a team of researchers and academics reported that these tiny creatures were alive and well. This extinct species of plains Zebra the Quagga once lived in South Africa.