10 Extinct Animals Scientists Might Bring Back
10 Extinct Animals Scientists Are Ready to Bring Back
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10 EXTINCT ANIMALS SCIENTISTS ARE READY TO BRING BACK!
Ancient and extinct animals are coming back to life guys and we could soon reunite with our long-lost relatives – the Neanderthals!
Er…hardly.
Attempts to resurrect Neanderthals presents numerous caveats ethically, morally, and scientifically. But scientists don’t see why we shouldn’t bring back animals that went extinct…particularly those that vanished due to human causes.
It’s a shaky topic folks but we’re determined to show you just what the modern science of cloning can achieve.
100M presents, 10 extinct animals bio-engineers are ready to bring back!
Also, be sure to stay to the end of this short video to find out just how close they are to putting a real T-rex in Jurassic Park!
#10. Caribbean Monk Seal
Today, you won’t see the monk seals that were native to the warm Caribbean; we humans hunted them down to extinction. The last confirmed sighting of the extinct monk seal was way back in 1952, spotted at the Serranilla bank.
NOAA’s Fisheries Service searched exhaustively for the seals for about five years before falling back and officially declaring the species extinct in 2008; affirming human causes as responsible for their extinction.
But all hope is not lost for these seals yet as scientists are looking to bring back the species even as their closest relatives; Hawaiian monk seals and the Mediterranean monk seals, are all critically endangered and face extinction themselves.
As conservationists up their skirts to protect the remaining monk seal family from the same fate that their Caribbean brothers suffered, scientists are analyzing more DNA samples extracted from century-old Caribbean monk seal skins found in museum collections, hoping to bring them back from extinction.
#9. Chinese River Dolphin
These dolphins swam freely in the Yangtze River of China and thrived in their freshwater habitat up until 2003 when their population dwindled so fast, they had to be declared functionally extinct. This meant that whatever little river dolphins that remained could not reproduce enough to bring their population back up again.
Other species of river dolphins in the Amazon river were also declared endangered by 2018, and they are likely facing extinction as human activity – particularly fishing- threatens their population. In 2015, a 5-year moratorium on fishing was introduced to protect the Amazon river dolphins. But since the start of the year 2020, the suspension ended and the dolphins came under even more serious threat across Latin America and Brazil.
As scientists are trying to conserve and protect the Amazon river dolphins, the same cannot be done for the Chinese river dolphins. They were declared the first cetaceans to be driven into extinction by humans.
Scientists are now looking to extract the Chinese river dolphin DNA to replicate it in an effort to de-extinct them. They are hopeful that the project will more than likely succeed since they have recent DNA material to work with.
#8. Pyrenean IBEX
Can you believe that this wild goat once roamed the earth until as recently as 20 years ago?
The Pyrenean Ibex could be found mostly in France and Spain mountainous regions but their numbers fell quickly and only 100 (or less) existed in the 1900s. The last of its kind, a female going by the name Celia, died after a tree fell on her in January, 2000.
There’s no single reason drawn to explain their extinction but scientists believe a combination of poaching, encroachment, diseases, and competition for both food and habitat with other wild ungulates are likely to have led to the fall of the Pyrenean Ibex.
All hope was not lost however, for scientists managed to clone this species using DNA obtained from the frozen skin cells of Celia, the last Pyrenean Ibex.
The de-extinction attempt of 2003 was a success – a short-lived success, at that – since the first cloned extinct animal lived for only one-hour after it was born.
But scientists have everything they need to do it again, this time with better results.
For now, it’s back to the drawing board on the Pyrenean Ibex de-extinction project.
#7. Irish Elk
Here’s a majestic 2-meter tall, 700-kilo deer with its beautiful enormous antlers. The Irish Elk – so wrongly named for it was neither exclusively Irish, nor was it an Elk – is perhaps the largest deer to have ever walked the earth.
They are now extinct with the last of these giant deer(s) believed to have died in Ireland around 11,000 years ago.
These deer(s) roamed the whole of Eurasia and were believed to have lived as far south as Northern Africa.