Extinct Animals That Might Come Back

Bees have long been talked about as a species that may go extinct relatively soon.

Extinct animals that might come back. The Baiji River Dolphin was found in the Yangtze River of China until 2002. They are the first species of Dolphins that have been driven to extinction by the activities of human beings. These dolphins are also the first amongst largest mammals to become extinct recently.

De-extinction started showing promise as early as 2003 when a mountain goat that had gone extinct three years before was reborn in a lab though it died minutes later. How will they respond to and change their new environment. Here are five examples of what are often referred to as Lazarus species breeds that have seemingly come back from the dead.

This freshwater dolphin is known as the Baiji and lived in the Yangtze River in China. There are ethical questions about whether humans should bring extinct animals back to life. Of all the extinct animals the Javan tiger is probably the most likely to still be around.

When the last one died in Poland in 1627 it was one of the first examples. Stellars sea cow grew to at least 8 or 9 meters. There are some extinct species such as the woolly mammoth shown above that may be brought back to life if scientists can overcome some.

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. Even called as the Somali Sengi this mouse-sized animal with its distinctive elongated nose is thriving across the Horn of Africa. Dugongs might still be carrying some of its DNA which could be how scientists bring them back.

To resurrect new zealands 11 extinct species three times as many. The Caspian Tiger was officially declared extinct in the 1970s. De-extinction could be a big step forward for genetic engineering.