List of resurrected species

This is a list of resurrected species. So far, there is no scientifically verified method of DNA resurrection of a previously dead species.

Selective breeding

Note: When it comes to selective breeding, the animals are not truly genetic clones, but share many similarities with the extinct animal they are supposed to look like.

  • Quagga: A subspecies of zebra which went extinct in the 1880s. The Quagga Project "revived" the extinct subspecies by selectively breeding modern zebras to bear more resemblance to the extinct animal. Since the new animal is not genetically identical to the original quagga, the new animal has been dubbed the Rau quagga.[1]
  • Aurochs: A breed of wild cattle that was last recorded in 1627. There have been numerous attempts at breeding aurochs-like cattle. The first attempt was by the Heck brothers in Germany, producing the first aurochs-like breed of cattle, the Heck cattle.[2] In 1996, a conservation group in Germany crossbred Heck cattle with southern-European primitive breeds with the aim of increasing the aurochs-likeness of certain Heck cattle herds. The resulting crossbreeds are called Taurus cattle.[3] The Tauros Programme is currently trying to DNA-sequence breeds of primitive cattle to find gene sequences that match those found in "ancient DNA" from aurochs samples.[4] The Uruz Project is a more recent attempt to bring back the aurochs, with the exception being that instead of selectively breeding cattle to resemble the aurochs, it is planning to make use of genome editing.[5]
  • Tarpan: A subspecies of wild horse that went extinct in 1909. Much the like the aurochs, there have been many attempts to breed tarpan-like horses, the first being by the Heck brothers, creating the Heck horse as a result. Though it is not a genetic copy, it is claimed to bear many similarities to the tarpan.[6] Other attempts were made to create tarpan-like horses. A breeder named Harry Hegardt was able to breed a line of horses from American Mustangs.[7] Other breeds of tarpan-like horse include the Konik and Strobel's horse.
  • Dire wolf: A selective breeding project was started in 1988 with the goal of bringing the look of the prehistoric wolf species into domestic dogs.[8]

Thawing

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/25/africa/quagga-project-zebra-conservation-extinct-south-africa/index.html
  2. ↑ Heck, Heinz (1951). "The Breeding-Back of the Aurochs". Oryx. 1: 117. doi:10.1017/S0030605300035286.
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042100/http://www.nepenthes.dk/files/Taurus_ebook.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1961918,00.html
  5. ↑ http://www.truenaturefoundation.org/project/species-restoration/uruz-project
  6. ↑ http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/horses/tarpan/
  7. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=894&dat=20020715&id=nR8LAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sFIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6864,2192458
  8. ↑ http://www.direwolfproject.com/
  9. ↑ http://www.nature.com/news/giant-virus-resurrected-from-30-000-year-old-ice-1.14801
  10. ↑ http://www.nature.com/news/wild-flower-blooms-again-after-30-000-years-on-ice-1.10069


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