What Animals Are Scientists Trying To Bring Back

The aurochs is an ancestor of domestic cattle that lived throughout Europe Asia and North Africa.

What animals are scientists trying to bring back. The most popular of these include Rhinos Polar bears Gorillas Cheetahs and Chimpanzees among many other animals. In a first step toward resurrecting the mammoth researchers from Russia and South Korea are working to bring back another extinct animal the Lena. By selectively breeding existing cattle that closely resemble the auroch genetically scientists hope to achieve an animal that closely matches Europes original wild auroch.

For example the extinct aurochs the ancestor of all modern cattle are being brought back through the Tauros Programme. With backbreeding scientists use a living species that is genetically similar to the extinct species and selectively breed it for the traits of the now-extinct species. The overall consensus was that it would be possible and a US start-up called CyberUni agreed to fund the project.

Genetic engineering depends on existing DNA samples of the extinct species. To discuss which animals we should bring back from extinction. 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.

Scientists want to bring them back through selective breeding of cattle species that carry some. 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. The scientists involved in this study want to bring back the tiger by using the genetically similar Siberian Tiger species.

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. On Friday at a National Geographic-sponsored TEDx conference scientists met in Washington DC. Today scientists have developed several new techniques where they can successfully use methods such as cloning DNA splicing etc to essentially resurrect these animals from the grave.

7 Animals That Scientists Want To Bring Back From Extinction. The aurochs is an ancestor of domestic cattle that lived throughout Europe Asia and North Africa. Heptner and Sludskiy 1972 Auroch.