Animals That Scientists Want To Bring Back
In America scientists are working on bringing back the passenger pigeon a rosy-breasted bullet of a bird that once flocked in the billions.
Animals that scientists want to bring back. To this end European teams have been selectively breeding cattle since 2009. This mid-sized Australian frog doesnt seem like much at first but we never had much time to study it either. 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.
Backbreeding genetic engineering and cloning. Eggs would be laid into the mouth and travel into the stomach. The scientists involved in this study want to bring back the tiger by using the genetically similar Siberian Tiger species.
That is were totally going to bring them back to life. The Southern gastric-brooding frog went extinct sometime in the mid-1980s and we want to bring it back if for nothing else than pure amusement. Scientists would then implant it into a large bird that could potentially hatch a great auk according to The Telegraph.
This article lists 10 extinct animals that scientists can and should bring back from the dead. On Friday at a National Geographic-sponsored TEDx conference scientists met in Washington DC. The aurochs is an ancestor of domestic cattle that lived throughout Europe Asia and North Africa.
Why scientists would want to bring this animal back to life is the real question. See the gastric-brooding frog didnt pick its name out of a hat it was called that because it literally gave birth from the mouth. Heptner and Sludskiy 1972 Auroch.
In a first step toward resurrecting the mammoth researchers from Russia and South Korea are working to bring back another extinct animal the Lena horse using cells from a. A razorbill the closest living relative to the great auk. 10 Gastric Brooding Frogs.