With all the stories about "de- extinction " of animal species lately, there's one method tha... ...t get much notice -when scientists decide that an extinct species never existed in the first place. That ap... ...nd scientists concluded that the species had gone extinct during...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/14/The-Curious-Case-of-the-Nonexistent-Turtle/
Australia's gastric-brooding frog doesn't just hol... ...stomach. Or, rather, it did. The species has been extinct since the 80s. But that didn't stop scientists fr... ...ns:Even though the gastric-brooding frog has been extinct for decades, it's possible to do this because ind... ...step forward for the worl...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/16/Scientists-Resurrect-Freaky-Extinct-Frog-That-Gives-Birth-through-Its-Mouth/
Since we saw Jurassic Park in 1993, research on DN... ...and cloning has brought the idea of bringing back extinct species forward from fantasy to practical possibi... ...er than ever. Scientists delivered a clone of the extinct Pyrenean ibex, using living cells of the last spe... ...d passenger pigeons. The...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/15/Revival-of-Extinct-Species/
We've followed the saga of Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island Tortoise, for years. But George has been around much longer, and was believed to be around 100 years old. Fausto Llerena, George's keeper for the past 40...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/24/r-i-p-lonesome-george/
We've posted before about species that have go... ...We've posted before about species that have gone extinct in recent history. For some of these species, the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/23/5-animals-who-were-the-last-of-their-species/
We don't know about Sasquatch, but we know a giant ape we call Gigantopithecus roamed South Asia until about 300,000 years ago. Gigantopithecus resembled a ten-foot-tall orangutan and weighed about three times as much as...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/09/how-gigantopithecus-became-extinct/
Scientists know how to do it. Cloning the extinct mammoth is just a matter of inserting mammoth DNA...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/07/mammoth-cloning-within-5-years/
Nearly extinct in the Middle East, the rare Sand Cat has finally... ...s in the dunes of Israel, the Sand Cat has become extinct in the region. This is Safari Zoo's first success...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/13/rare-sand-kitten-born/(YouTube link) The thylacine, or "Tasmanian t... ..., or "Tasmanian tiger" is considered to have gone extinct in 1936, when the last known specimen died at a z...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/26/recent-footage-of-a-thylacine/
A family of giant armored turtles called meiolanii... ...illions of years ago and was thought to have gone extinct 50,000 years ago. But now evidence from an archae... ...ania damelipi flourished 3,000 years ago and were extinct 200 years later, possibly because of human huntin...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/21/koopa-style-giant-turtle/
