Animals Scientists Are Trying To Bring Back

Ironically human beings pushed these animals to extinction because of human impact but now they want the animals to.

Animals scientists are trying to bring back. Generally it helps if there is a species still alive today that is genetically similar to the extinct animal like elephants for woolly mammoths or cows for aurochs. Ironically many of Earths long-lost species including some on this list were driven to extinction by humans. What dangerous animals are scientists trying to bring back.

In 2014 Shapiro taught a graduate class on de-extinction and asked each student to make a case for bringing one animal back from the dead. Many scientists from across the globe have been trying to perfect the morally ambiguous act of cloning andor genetic engineering for certain extinct animals. But the joy didnt last no longer than 7 minutes.

On Friday at a National Geographic sponsored TEDx conference scientists met in Washington DC. Bringing extinct animals back to life is known as de-extinction. Scientists could bring them back to life by targeting and replacing specific genomic sequences in a closely-related living species.

To discuss which animals we should bring back from extinction. 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. The overall consensus was that it would be possible and a US start-up called CyberUni agreed to fund the project.

They are discussing it with The Long Now Foundation at an all-day TEDx De-Extinction conference. They also discussed the how why. Recently scientists successfully cloned the species.

The resulting organisms would have features of both modern organisms and extinct ones. Some scientists are taking another approach to this process instead of transferring DNA. With the help of liquid nitrogen they then preserved it in hopes of bringing the extinct species back to life.