Back from the Dead
Cloning could bring back the Extinct
Just Embryo for Now
Few animals come close to the oddities of the gastric brooding frog-- an Australian species that literally vomits out its children. Discovered in 1973, it disappeared 6 years later in 1979. What caused its extinction?
Humans.
But now, thanks to cloning, we could right our many previous wrongs.
Before it's extinction, a scientist had frozen a few specimens. Taking the DNA from the creatures, scientists created living gastric brooding frog embryo. Although they never lived outside the womb, they did have the DNA coding of the gastric brooding frog.
Scientists say it could be less than 3 years until they create a living, breathing clone.
How Many Others?
Scientists haven't just tried to revive the gastric brooding frog-- no, there have been many other attempts at many other creatures. A few are the following; the passenger pigeon, the European auroch, the Pyrenean ibex, the dodo, the Carolina parakeet, the Stellar's sea cow, and the Tasmanian wolf.
Which are you most excited to see revived?
Some Species you could see in the next Couple years
Tasmanian Wolf
Also known as the Thylacines, these predators were hunted to extinction in the 1930s-- due to them killing livestock and such.
Pyrenean Ibex
What a surprise-- these creatures were hunted to extinction. They were abundant in the Middle Ages, and we're eaten by the rich at banquets. They died out in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Carolina Parakeet
A big reason for this parrot's extinction is deforestation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-- but hunting played a key role, thanks to their feathers.