20 Extinct Animals Scientists Are Ready To Bring Back

[Music] due to the dramatic shift in climate and other human interventions there are a lot of plant and animal species that are extinct than those that are alive today this is actually a shame especially to the scientist community who should have given it all to study these creatures however due to advances in genetics and cloning bringing this animals back from extinction seems more of a possibility than ever let's look at some of the top 20 animals scientists are ready to bring back the dodo 30 years after its discovery the dodo became extinct its only known habitat was mauritius island where it had been living peacefully who knows for how long until in the 1590s when their death showed up the dodo had no fear of people because it had not seen humans before so it was easy to cap this creature to death these birds are big and heavy a little over three feet tall and weighing about 39 pounds luckily the dodo may soon become unextinct as scientists just need to collect few dna samples and implant them into their closest relative the pigeon the ground sloth you might mistake this picture of gigantic creature for a bear well yes it is to be more precise a ground sloth this are some of the extinct animals that scientists are ready to bring back since they were still walking about 8 000 years ago even better some dna samples have already been received from their undamaged cells however finding a surrogate mother for the clone baby may be difficult because their nearest modern-day relative is too small to carry a creature the size of a bear scientists are therefore contemplating the possibility of using an artificial womb the woolly mammoth even though most of the woolly mammoths died about ten thousand years ago a population of about five hundred to a thousand of them was still living on rangel island up to four thousand years ago this animal was about the size of an african elephant with the shoulder height of 11 feet and weighed about 6 tons they had a thick double coated fur and fluffy ears that helped it survive harsh conditions many discovered specimens frozen in the arctic make it possible for scientists to use their dna and create a high breed embryo of a woolly mammoth and an elephant that has already been nicknamed mammophant the neanderthal this is definitely the most controversial the idea of scientists bringing back to life this species had brought about a heated debate due to the logistics the strongest surrogate species would have to be human in addition neanderthals are believed to be a subspecies of modern people so while cloning them would be enlightening it could also be unethical in any case resurrecting neanderthals would be the easiest of them all because scientists already have its genus and it's not a question of whether or not we can but if we should the woolly rhinoceros alongside the woolly mammoth is the woolly rhinoceros a fluffy extinct animal that scientists want to bring back this animal recently lived in the arctic snows about ten thousand years ago this furry rhino is quite famous and often makes an appearance in the french chavo de ponte arc the arctic permafrost had done a great job by preserving quite a lot of specimen and now the woolly rhinoceros has the same chances of being resurrected as a mammoth the bhaji river dolphin this beloved creature went extinct in 2006 as a result of direct impact due to human activity this is one of the animals that scientists are ready to bring back from extinction because of their recent extinction their dnas are pretty much at hand and their resurrection is a guaranteed success unfortunately it's unclear whether the baji river dolphin will have a home to come back to if it doesn't become unextinct because their habitats are extremely polluted the moa this was a huge flyless bird similar to an ostrich the moa family has about 10 members some not bigger than turkeys while some reached a height of 10 feet making it the largest bird that has ever inhabited the planet just 600 years ago the history of this bird was brought to an end by aggressive hunting luckily enough due to such a recent time this animal extinction remnants of their feathers and eggs can still be found even today and the moa dna has actually been extracted from the moa eggshells the irish elk also known as the giant deer the irish elk is one of the animals that didn't manage to survive the ice age despite its extinction about 12 000 years ago researchers have discovered irish elk fossils are only seven thousand to eight thousand years old in siberia if this is one of the extinct animals scientists want to bring back well it will be a great sight to see it was seven feet tall just at its shoulder and it had antlers extending up to 12 feet across the irish elk inhabited the north and his preserved remains have been found in the melting permafrost the heath hen in regards to the conservation the heath hen is one of the animals that received a lot of concentration from people commonly found in the northeastern u.s these birds were aggressively hunted for food for the next 300 years or so local conservationists banned the hunting of this bird to try and preserve it but it still went into extinction in 1932 availability of its dna makes it a candidate of bee extinction however a conservation group is determined to restore the bird through genetic technology the gastric rooting frog native to eastern australia the gastric brooding frog is an aquatic frog whose genus consists of only two species both of which went extinct in the 1980s due to chytrid fungus they are famously known for their unique characteristic of giving birth through the mouth after their extinction much later in 2013 scientists began a project dubbed the lazarus project named after a biblical man meaning bring back to life they tried to clone the frog and they hoped to make an embryo that will survive up to a tadpole stage the quagga this animal that went extinct in 1983 due to hunting is actually a subspecies of the plain zebra the two species had the same dna and shared the same genotype though their observable characteristics are different scientists started a project to recreate the quagga from selected plane zebras it had some success and the first quagga plane zebra was born in january 2005 while the fifth generation was born in december 2013. this extinct animal scientists are bringing back are almost identical to the extinct quagga and can be released into the wild the thylacine this largest known carnivorous marsupial native to australia and new guinea looked more like a wolf it became extinct in the mainland 3 000 years ago but survived on a tasmanian island until human hunters brought it to extinction in attempts to protect their lives in the late 20th century in 2008 scientists at the university of melbourne grew a massive embryos from a sample of dna and they grew normally this experiment has given scientists the hopes of eventually restoring the thylacine from extinction the megalania the megalania were part of the megafauna assemblage that inhabited southern australia during the pleistocene they had a massive 575 kilograms and measured five and a half meters in height it is believed that the earliest australian aborigines settlers might have been a factor to the extinction of this gigantic lizard there is a larger initiative though aimed at retrieving the long gone megalania putting it on the list of some of the extinct animals being brought back to life the great oak this flightless bird became extinct in the mid 19th century it was the only modern species in the genus pinguinus even though there is no relationship between the two this was the first bird to be called penguin the bird's downed feathers were in high demand in europe where it was used in making pillows its eggs and flesh are also used for food this largely contributed to its extinction through hunting however scientists are working on cloning this precious bird backed by use of the dna from its preserved parts the allrock this is an extinct mammal considered to be an ancestor of all modern cattle domesticated by the settlers of india and eurasia about 10 thousand years ago unfortunately this historic animal species was declared extinct in the 17th century when the last aura died of a disease scientists are planning to resurrect the species by back breeding the primitive breeds of european cattle until they get animals similar to the aura even though the new arc won't be identical to the extinct one scientists believe that the differences will be very few the passenger pigeon before their population dwindle the passenger pigeon was estimated to be as much as billions it was native to america and due to their migratory habits they were moved in large flocks it was easier for people to shoot them down in large numbers consequently leading to their extinction scientists are working to bring it back using its closest relative the band-tailed pigeon the extinct pigeon is expected to be ready by 2024 and will be released to the world by 2030. pyrenean ibex this is a subspecies of a spanish ivex that went into extinction from the last 20 years they were hunted for meat for over 200 years until their exhaustion in the year 2000 but when scientists bring back extinct animals yes this species was brought back from extinction in 2006 though it went back again in just a few minutes due to a deformed respiratory system this event marked the first successful attempt at extinction by way of cloning despite that scientists still believe that with viable genetic material they will still bring back this animal from extinction the carolina parakeet native to north america the carolina parakeet was exterminated by hunters rendering the species extinct in 1939 poachers hunted this bird for the incredibly beautiful feathers which were used in the production of expensive ladies hats nevertheless scientists have extracted their dna from eggshells and are working on reviving this wonderful bird even though scientists have good intentions it's believed that after revival of this parrot the extinction story may repeat itself again the saber-tooth tiger but first do us a favor click that like button to inspire us subscribe to our channel and click the notification bell and you won't miss any interesting videos done then let's go [Music] just about the size of your modern day big cat this extinct animal being brought back by scientists could get up to 13 feet long and weigh from 200 to 600 pounds it had a muscular neck powerful legs and sharp teeth protruding from the upper jaw just look at those teeth i'm sure you're thinking this is the extinct animal we shouldn't bring back to life these freelance predators disappeared just 11 000 years ago and because of their original habitat was pretty cool their fossils have remained intact just like a mammal the siberian unicorn there you go that's what a real unicorn looks like and it was more like a rhino than a gracious horse siberian unicorn discovered in kazakhstan showed that it had just disappeared 29 000 years ago unlike scientists had earlier thought and that's great for people who wish to see a unicorn someday because it was technically a unicorn and not some magical fairy tale type with one big horn coming out of its skull it was 15 feet long six feet tall with a whopping nine thousand pounds in weight which one of them do you want to see in real life do you think we should bring them back let us know in the comments box below like always if you enjoyed it be sure to give us a big thumbs up and leave us some love in the comment section to keep up to date with all of our awesome videos be sure to hit subscribe and turn your notifications on to never miss a thing until next time do take care of yourself

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Length: 12min 21sec (741 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 02 2021