What Animals Are Scientists Trying To Bring Back

Scientists want to bring them back through selective breeding of cattle species that carry some aurochs DNA.

What animals are scientists trying to bring back. A friend of mine recently tried to tell me that many years ago some scientist was able to bring dead animals and people back to life. To this end European teams have been selectively breeding cattle since 2009. In America scientists are working on bringing back the passenger pigeon a rosy-breasted bullet of a bird that once flocked in the billions.

The aurochs is an ancestor of domestic cattle that lived throughout Europe Asia and North Africa. What dangerous animals are scientists trying to bring back. Not content to speculate on possibilities a group of geneticists met in New Zealand in 1999 to figure out whether it would be feasible to clone a huia and bring the species back for good.

Thats because they arent cows but rather Aurochs one of the largest herbivores in European history weighing 700 kg 1500 lbs and 1500 kg 3300 lbs. Why scientists would want to bring this animal back to life is the real question. In a first step toward resurrecting the mammoth researchers from Russia and South Korea are working to bring back another extinct animal the Lena.

TitleFrozen carcasses of the Woolly Mammoth means that scientists have access to well-preserved DNA from these prehistoric giant animals related to elephants. 8 Woolly Rhino 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. Does he have his story straight or is he mixing fact and.

On Friday at a National Geographic-sponsored TEDx conference scientists met in Washington DC. Top 10 Animals Scientists Want to Bring Back From Extinction. By 2050 there are many animals that may go into extinction if nothing is done very soon.

To discuss which animals we should bring back from extinction. Scientists could bring them back to life by targeting and replacing specific genomic sequences in a closely-related living species. For example the extinct aurochs the ancestor of all modern cattle are being brought back through the Tauros Programme.