Extinct Animals That Could Come Back

The largest subspecies Smilodon populator could reach 400 kg in weight three meters in length and 14 meters tall at the shoulder.

Extinct animals that could come back. To be considered endangered there must be fewer than 2500 mature snow leopards and they must be experiencing a high rate of decline. 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. The Pyrenean ibex or bucardo recently became the first extinct animal to ever become un-extinct at least for seven minutes.

Discover which extinct species could come back to life in the future. The Quagga Project started in 1987 is an attempt to bring them back from extinction. Scientists hope to bring them back thanks to the Siberian tiger that is almost identical.

Here are five examples of what are often referred to as Lazarus species breeds that have seemingly come back from the dead. 4 extinct animals that have come back to life. 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.

Extinct animals that could come back. When Cristobal Colon sailed past Bermuda in 1492 an estimated half-million pairs of these birds nested there. Then in 2009 a goat gave birth to a cloned Pyrenean ibex in a government-funded miracle that marked the first time any species had been brought back from extinction.

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. Before there were cattle as we know them today there were aurochs which were cowlike creatures bigger than elephants. That goes for all these other animals were bringing back too.

Yet conservation work is helping some to come back from the brink. Technically its already been done. In preparation for de-extinction The Long Now Foundation has listed several species that meet the criteria for coming back to life including the below.