10 Extinct Animals Scientists Are Trying To Revive!
From the legendary wooly mammoth to the wacky dodo bird, here are ten extinct animals scientists are trying to bring back to life!
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10: Woolly Rhino
There is so much attention put on the woolly mammoth that almost nobody talks about the woolly rhinoceros. Nonetheless, a recent discovery of a baby woolly rhino which roamed the planet somewhere around 10,000 years ago has put new hope into the chances of resurrecting this extinct creature.
9: The Caspian Tiger
The Caspian tiger is one of the newest animals to have gone extinct. Until the 1960s, this subspecies of tiger was one of the largest cats that has ever lived on earth. It roamed through Asia, primarily in the area surrounding the Caspian Sea.
8: The Aurochs
The aurochs is not quite as exciting as a tiger or a woolly mammoth, but they are still pretty neat. These animals are the ancient wild ancestors of modern cattle. They had large horns, incredible strength, and inspired fear and awe until they were brought to extinction in 1627.
7: The Dodo Bird
The dodo bird is definitely the most popular extinct animal. Everyone on earth knows what a dodo bird is. In popular culture, they are often shown as being goofy animals that were so dumb that they brought themselves to extinction.
6: The Woolly Mammoth
Scientists may be on the verge of resurrecting the woolly mammoth. It all starts with a group of hunters in the remote and largely uninhabited region of northern Siberia who hunt every summer to try and find a perfectly formed woolly mammoth tusk somewhere in the melting permafrost.
5: The Moa
The moa was a giant flightless bird that lived all across New Zealand before it went abruptly extinct in the 13th century because of overhunting. It's basically a big mean bird that kind of looks like an ostrich, but that’s actually even meaner.
4: The Tasmanian Tiger
The last Tasmanian Tiger died in captivity in September of the year 1936. His name was Benjamin and he was the very last of his kind. While this sounds like the beginning of an action movie, it was a real thing that really happened. The Tasmanian tiger appeared on the planet about four million years ago and went extinct mainly because of humans and disease.
3: The Irish Elk
The Irish elk is one of the species currently up for being cloned. The exotic Irish elk was at one time the largest deer on earth. It had antlers that were 12 feet (3.8m) across and stood at least seven feet tall (2.2m). It existed in several different places across the world, not just in Ireland, and you can often find its antlers mounted to some old castle walls.
2: The Great Auk
The great auk was a weird combination between a penguin and a puffin. These weird birds swam in the waters and hung out on the shores of the North Atlantic. However, by the 1800s humans had driven them to the brink of extinction, then over the brink and all the way into the great abyss of no return.
1: The Quagga
The quagga is one of the weirdest animals ever. The animal was a close relative of the zebra, and it went extinct somewhere around 100 years ago. Just like zebras, quaggas had stripes. However, their stripes were only on the front half of their bodies. Otherwise, they were basically identical.
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