Animals That Scientists Want To Bring Back
On Friday at a National Geographic-sponsored TEDx conference scientists met in Washington DC.
Animals that scientists want to bring back. This mid-sized Australian frog doesnt seem like much at first but we never had much time to study it either. The aurochs is an ancestor of domestic cattle that lived throughout Europe Asia and North Africa. 7 Animals That Scientists Want To Bring Back From Extinction Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The most popular of these include Rhinos Polar bears Gorillas Cheetahs and Chimpanzees among many other animals.
The Saber Toothed Tiger. And the heath hen a stumpy avian wallflower that. To discuss which animals we should bring back from extinction.
Its a shame when any species goes extinct but its almost a special flavor of shame when its an animal as unique as the gastric brooding frog. To this end European teams have been selectively breeding cattle since 2009. 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.
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. 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. Eggs would be laid into the mouth and travel into the stomach.
A razorbill the closest living relative to the great auk. 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. Heptner and Sludskiy 1972 Auroch.
The scientists involved in this study want to bring back the tiger by using the genetically similar Siberian Tiger species. 10 Gastric Brooding Frogs. Scientists Want to Bring Some Animals Back from Extinction.