What Animals Are Scientists Trying To Bring Back

On Friday at a National Geographic-sponsored TEDx conference scientists met in Washington DC.

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. By 2050 there are many animals that may go into extinction if nothing is done very soon.

The aurochs is an ancestor of domestic cattle that lived throughout Europe Asia and North Africa. 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. Scientists want to bring them back through selective breeding of cattle species that carry some.

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 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.

In a first step toward resurrecting the mammoth researchers from Russia and South Korea are working to bring back another extinct animal the Lena. The aurochs is an ancestor of domestic cattle that lived throughout Europe Asia and North Africa. While that is happening on one side of the world on the other scientists are.

Meet the Scientists Bringing Extinct Species Back From the Dead New gene-editing technology could revive everything from the passenger pigeon. In America scientists are working on bringing back the passenger pigeon a rosy-breasted bullet of a bird that once flocked in the billions. Top 10 Animals Scientists Want to Bring Back From Extinction.

Below is a list of ten animals that the scientists are attempting to bring back to life from their conserved DNA in fossilized remains. The overall consensus was that it would be possible and a US start-up called CyberUni agreed to fund the project. 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.