7 Extinct Animals That Could Actually Come Back
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2024
- These top extinct animals are on the verge of coming back to Earth. This is a throwback to some extinct animals I actually searched for on Extinct or Alive. With major scientific advances in recent years, and conservation attempts around the world, these extinct species could actually return to our world. From the Thylacine, to the Dodo and Woolly Mammoth, these are 7 animals that could return.
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Which extinct animal would you like to see make a return?
Stellers seecow
sabertooth tiger would be cool
Sabor tooth tiger
Quick switch Tasmanian tiger
Hey Forrest!
Another popular wildlife channel I follow recently posted a video and bashed you _a lot_ in it... (of course, being a brostner I vehemently defended you)
One of the claims they made was that all the credible experts have agreed that the Pondicherry shark you found was actually a misidentification of a different known non-endangered species and denounced your claim! Also that you were aware of this and had DNA sequenced that you refused to release 🤔
Lmao it was my 1st time hearing of this and was wondering if there is actually any controversy around the Pondicherry rediscovery or were they talking out their arse?
I would love to see Steller’s Sea Cow, just the idea of a giant manatee living in the arctic seems really cool
Exactly this is a species I often day dream about. One of the coolest.
I don’t dive often or snorkel, but if there was a wetsuit that could provide heat rather than trap it in, I would definitely go diving with one until I see a leopard seal or orca😂😂
@@Grootsleftacornehh youll be fine if its a orca or a leopard seal they dont attack humans unless provoked the thing you should worry about is a Polar bear
Atleast we’ve got stellar sea eagle
Stellers sea cow, the passenger pidgeon, rhe great auk and the dodo would be my personal choices. As these are extinct purely due to their own trusting nature being abused, not evolution or habitat/ecosystem collapse, just our own stupidity and greed. If I could change anything about history, then an earlier interest and understanding of animal conservation would be up there with preventing a certain German and saving the library of alexandria
Forrest just makes science and animal history just so much more interesting. He explains it like a normal person and watch out, we just might learn something that we didn’t know about. Extinct or Alive needs to come back too!
I mean he lies about the finds, takes other people credit and pretty sure all journalists are banned from the galapgose tortise hunts after his behaviour
Look up steve irwin if you want someone real
Agreed! Major Forrest Fans over here 🙌
As another Forrest that also has a love of paleontology and archaeology he is one of my favorites
Awesome video Forrest. Thank you for doing what you do.
It always amazes me to listen to Forrest and hear that moment when he slows his talking because he can feel his accent coming out and he wants to control it. It'd be really interesting to hear him talking unmasked and letting his accent flow, sort of like me when I get around southern people and suddenly my Mississippi accent comes out in force.
I’d like to see genetic diversity added back into the cheetah population, and other animals on the brink of extinction, using some of the deextinction tech. But also the THYLACINE! ❤
This seems like the best first level large scale test. It’s not bringing back anything but it’s still quite a large undertaking. And it’d be a test to see what we are actually capable of with this science.
I would like to see more Cheetahs too especially the color phase known as the king cheetah
I have heard that the company he's talking about is also trying to help endangered animals. They just use unextinction as a means to keep in the news and raise money.
@@jonathanhall1825more alternate markings then a truely different color phase.
Learning about the American cheetah makes me wish we could find a way to introduce diversity back into the cheetah population.
To be able to say something that’s so scientific and technical in a “dumbed down” and simple way just shows how knowledgeable this guy really is
Right?! We definitely didn't make it easy for him 🦣
Plenty of us are interested in the subject without knowing all the science behind it. If you can bring any extinct creature back as long as you can extract intact DNA which we have with Woolly Mammoths for example through either cloning, artificial insemination with an elephant or genome editing. They successfully did it with the Pyrenean ibex in 2003 and that was over 20 years ago. The technology and processes have made huge advancements since then.
This topic is fascinating! I would love to see you do a video on Colossal Bio and what they are up to, and wo they are working with to make some of this happen. A behind the scenes tour would be awesome!
Busy watching your documentary about sevengills filmed in my backyard, so to speak. I still find it amazing that there is so much diversity around the Cape. Watching you catch that ragged tooth shark from the beach sent chills down my spine. Having dived in some of the areas that you visited and seeing the kelp filmed forrest on film was amazing. Great documentary.👍❤
I am here to clear up a few things about the dodo: First, The dodo was not really that dumb for a bird, in fact it seems that it actually was fairly intellegent. Second, Humans alone did not just wipe it out by bonking them or eating them. People often described their food as unruly or disgusting, but it was rather the dogs, cats, and rats introduced onto their island that killed and ate their eggs. With an already slightly lower reproduction rate, the dodo was unable to keep up with their losses from natural disasters that would occur.
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I really want to see some dodo birds for the first time
Bye old 🦤
Hello future 🦤
This just goes to show that a certain someone doesnt know as much as he leads us to believe😅
This is true
I was about to comment the same thing, but you said it better than I would have.
Love this guys videos to the core pls make more
Keep this stuff coming! Love to hear about this kind of work. Let’s get this some traction and get this trip funded!
Fantastic episode Forrest! I have a ton of other great candidates.
Colossal has been very clear that they need three things to be able to de-extinct a species:
1.) A close living relative which shares a similar genome (I'm guessing here, but I would say it would have to share 80-85% of the same DNA for it to be possible).
2.) Well preserved specimens of the extinct species that they can get observable/recordable DNA from.
3.) Most importantly, a suitable ecosystem/habitat and purpose for existing.
With those factors, my list stands at:
#1.) Caribbean Monk Seal
Extinction: 1950's.
Closest living relative: Hawaiian Monk Seal
This is the biggest no brainer, in my opinion. The Caribbean Monk Seal is an excellent candidate. It went extinct in our lifetime, which means specimens and DNA will be plentiful. There are no monk seals in the North or South American continents anymore (Hawaii is thousands of miles away). They were exclusively slaughtered by humans and there's an extremely close living relative. Also the Hawaiian and Mediterranean monk seals are not doing well at all. Any research into more biodiversity for these species is greatly needed. Seals play an extremely important role in the nutrient circulation of our seas. They are also an extremely charismatic species and humans have a history of husbandry with them. I think they need to be priority #1 moving forward.
#2.) Falkland Islands Wolf
Extinction: 1870's.
Closest living relative: Maned Wolf
This is another no brainer, in my opinion. Exterminated in the past 150 years exclusively by humans, the Falkland Islands remain nearly as barren as they were when the wolves roamed the islands in significant numbers. They can fit right back into their habitat (albeit in smaller numbers). There has already been research into their genome and it's known they are closely related to the Maned Wolf of South America and another species that went extinct around 500 years ago on the mainland continent. They would be a perfect case study of reintroduction of an apex canid-type creature into their old environment. If the wolves of Yellowstone are any indication, it will probably be a massive success.
#3.) Woolly Rhinoceros
Extinction: Approx. 10,000 years ago.
Closest living relative: Sumatran Rhinoceros
In general, I would think an animal this old would be impossible. But everything that stands for the Woolly Mammoth project stands for the Woolly Rhino. It has a purpose and a proposed habitat in trying to remake the Mammoth Steppe. It has a close living relative: the Sumatran Rhino. And any research that goes into this can help ALL rhino species that are struggling, particularly the three in Southeast Asia.
#4.) Great Auk
Extinction: 1840's.
Closest living relative: Razorbill
The Great Auk was exterminated brutally by humans approximately 180 years ago. Their habitat still exists (all their cousins still roost their old nesting sites). And they were a unique species in the Northern Hemisphere. There are numerous specimens available in order to capture DNA and a close living relative: the Razorbill. They are an icon of extinction and they deserve another chance to roam the seas again.
#5.) Rodrigues Solitaire
Extinction: 1770's.
Closest Living Relative: The Nicobar Pigeon
If you're going to bring back the Dodo, you might as well bring back its closest relative that lived into modern times! The Solitaire is a fantastic looking bird that was unfairly exterminated by feral rats, cats, and snakes brought by humans. The groundwork is already done for the Dodo. A few thousand gene switches and we have another necessary species!
Honorable mentions:
Carolina Parakeet, Bluebuck, Japanese Wolf, Moa, Elephant Bird, Haast's Eagle.
Did you write this book just so you could read it, because no one else did.
Humans and chimps have 99% same DNA for reference
26+ upvotes bud, people are interested in what I wrote!
@@sportsman893 you keep telling yourself that. Good for you.
@@smashtoad I read it and I liked it, get a life you illiterate.
This kind of science really is reminiscent of Jurassic Park,to see a Wooly Mammoth 🦣 just walking around after all those year's being extinct is mind blowing 🤯
Indeed 😂
it would be freking amazing😮😮 cant wait to see wolly mammoths back to life
@@marianmarian8882 yeah cool right, scientists have already cloned many species of animals. But the wooly mammoth would look different from the original one.
@@aqua_foxfx4563 of course combining two different adn will make them look different, maybe even better who knows
@@marianmarian8882 yeah hopefully
this is so Fantastic And Great i love you videos and always hook me in ur energy reminds me of Sir David Attenborough
Content is getting better!
I wrote a paper in high school about de-extinction and while it absolutely fascinated me, at the time (nearly 10 years ago) it seemed highly unlikely in my opinion. Now I'm very glad to see that I was wrong and can't wait to see these animals brought back and see their ecosystems restored!
Isn't it amazing to be wrong sometimes! I'm glad the science is improving
The Nazi’s were quite successful back in the 1930’s. The Pyrenean ibex was brought back in 2003. The Woolly Mammoth should be a doddle considering all the pristine frozen examples found.
Bringing back the Thylacine to rebuild our Tassie ecosystem would be amazing to see. I will without a doubt visit Tassie to see one in the flesh. Amazingly important work is being done on the cutting edge in this field.
I live here; I'll be watching.
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Not tryna be funny but even if they cloned one successful I don’t think they’ll be letting million plus pound experiments lose in the wild they just wouldn’t allow it
@@spiritvtechreviews5294I'm sure it would take a few years, maybe a decent, of studying the new animals before reintroducing them. But the positive impacts would be worth it. Governments already spend multi-millions on conservation. Reintroduction would likely be a joint venture with benefits for those parties.
You're an amazing human with a huge ❤ heart!!!! Wishing you an amazing 2024!!!! Good Luck !! Thank you for being my legs since I haven't been able to walk since I was 15yrs old.. I like watching all your videos, they help me cope with my depression!! Thank you again for helping me explore the world with you !!!!!
Love this❣ The Tasmanian Tiger is a favorite for me, too. I've watched all the expedition documentaries and can almost believe some still exist, but with not much genetic diversity. I'd like to know how the efforts to add genetic diversity to Tasmanian Devils is doing. Supposedly some were brought from a different part of Tasmania to add diversity, but I've never heard or seen anything since. While I'm at it, I wonder if there are any efforts to bring back some of the large Australian marsupials that were wiped out by the first humans who voyaged there---like the giant Ground Sloth, etc. I loved your show and watched every episode and was so exited when you found species thought to be extinct and sad when you didn't. Are you going to do any more of those expeditions? Thank you for all of it!
Hey Chris! We'd love to explain - Population biology is well-researched and understood, particularly among apex predators. Working from 20-50 individual Thylacine specimens to sequence from, our scientists have a large enough data set to ensure a diversified genetic pool for several generations. Furthermore, we are using genetic engineering to make several hundred edits to the surrogate dunnart embryo, further creating genetic diversity.
I just found your channel a couple days ago and I gotta say I have never been so delighted to see that someone created a CZcams channel. I first heard of you through JRE and was instantly inspired and interested in what you were doing. Please keep up the great work. Thank you for all you do.
I really hope they succeed man. Watching the videos of Benjamin and the fact that he passed just cause someone forgot and left him out in the cold just sucks. Would love to see all these creatures again one day 👍
Fr, I can’t imagine what that person was thinking after the incident. Being responsible for the death of the last of an entire family must hurt
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Keep up with these kind of videos forest. I love these
This video was amazing, please make more of these talk over informative videos
I’d like to see the return of Dire Wolves, Mammoths and massive Cave Bear (any mega-fauna really)…
I love the ideas and science of bringing back animals that are recently extinct and replenishing endangered species.
Giant sloths are on my list too. I also miss not seeing the extinct Selkirk Caribou on hikes....pretty sure those were the only Caribou in US aside from Alaska.
Just make sure before you bring any mega fauna back people are okay with it. I think the Biden administration wants to put grizzly bears back in California. When they go extinct again don't fucking blame us. I gotta live next to the shit they bring back to life not the people who make the decision to bring it back to life they paid and taken care of by the government they got money to go anywhere we normal poor folks gotta deal with what they do so just make sure if you're going to bring something back make sure it's not going to cause itself to go extinct again.
those things are huge... imagine if you could domesticate them
@@itiscolossalwhat the hell i just realized you were the actual colossal bioscience youtube channel
we need to get you more subscribers and more known for your amazing work! I thought you were just another youtube commenter
Dire wolves would be so badass! We could theoretically bring back the terror bird while we’re at it
Love this video! As a geneticist I think it’s super cool they are carrying out this research. One point to make however, is that they aren’t exactly brining the animal back. Instead, they are brining back proxies of that animal with phenotypic traits similar to the animal they are bringing back. For example, using the mammoth that coalossal aims to bring back, they aren’t directly breeding a pure wooly mammoth. Rather, they aim to engineer viable genes from the wooly mammoth and incorporate them into a proxy species, which is the Indian elephant. Thus, the team at coalossal are amalgamating genomes together to create animals that resemble their extinct counterparts.
So they’re going to find a common point in between the two?
@@fornito530 yeah, it’s kind of like a hybrid between the two species
Hey Josh, great insight! A perfect example is the Thylacine. Our restored Thylacine will have all the core biological traits of its recently extinct ancestors. You cannot bring back an extinct species that is genetically, behaviorally, and psychologically identical in every way, but our hybrid species will look and sound just like a Thylacine and more importantly, it will be able to inhabit the same ecosystem that has suffered without its existence.
@@joshpython6540 In the mammoth's case that's probably for the best since the original mammoth thrived in a MUCH colder climate than exists today -- a hybrid that can survive in modern Siberia would be better than a "pure" specimen that can't. In terms of environmental impact, I argue the Thylacine is by far the most important. That plus of course continued flora rewilding and extermination of cats/rats/goats from key areas.
@@Soufriere84I don’t see how your brain can come to this conclusion. Wooly mammoths are far and above a more important animal to have back than the Tasmanian tiger. I’m sure you would just rather see the tiger back instead of the mammoth as it’s more exciting.
Love these vids
the way you present this is A+ top notch
Great video Forrest! Keep up the good work mate.
I wrote a English assignment about colossal and my English teacher laughed at me well see who’s laughing when there is a mammoth on the news
Lol, that’s hilarious 😂😂😂😂
Love this channel miss your shows
I’ve watched some of your vids lord I love the investment of your life into anything and everything about animals keep rocking it on
Great work sir!! Keep it up!! Someday we are going to have to get you up here for some adventures onboard with us!
Please keep bringing the longer form content, it’s incredible!
Amazing youre great forrest such a inspiration
Thanks for explaining things in a way that I can understand
I love your shows and your true excitement for this cloning to work. You also care deeply about all animals ❤️. For that I am so grateful. We need millions like you and then we'd stop trophy hunting 😢😢
Are you doing a 3rd season of Extinct or Alive? I love that show.
The passenger pigeon is probably the most important one to bring back because of its ability to spread different seeds to large areas
Loved the jenga explanation….PERFECT !!!
As a South Dakotaen I would live to see a giant bison
OMGOSH Forrest this is a brilliant video, WOW so interesting, i would love to see a woolly mammoth and thylacine , i have been following you for years , thank you ever so much for boots on the ground, getting out there in our wild life ,. Absolutely brilliant videos you make , katie wales uk 👍😊❤❤
We want part 2 if you can do it and extinct or alive season 3 big fan btw(hello from bosnia)❤
these videos are awesome
Your knowledge and passion for discovery and restoration give me so much hope and wonder!! If I was forced to choose one on that list, it would have to be Thylacine
Great pick!
I do want the thylacine to come back, but I would feel guilty for not picking the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō because the last one died singing for a female who never came 😔
You could do a mass burst of 5000 passenger pigeons, get the genetics from the many taxidermy specimens, get a large facility, maybe 200-500 pigeons, start fertilizing them with passenger cloned cells and repeat until you build up population mass. The fact their birds should make production fairly fast. Hopefully.
Forrest is underappreciated, certified legend.
Agreed.
Nice vid very interesting
I think the loss of the passenger pigeon is also linked to the decline to a specific tree in North America, IIRC white oak and that is also putting the production of casks for alcohol to give them their brand flavour.
There was also the fact that because they gathered together in such huge numbers, when conservation efforts were proposed there was a lot of scoffing at the idea that such an abundant bird could actually be in danger.
One animal I would love to bring back would be caspian tiger. They are such beautiful animals with all the white.
It's not only animals suffering from extinction, here in South Africa, especially the Cape with fynbos, the flora is very localized and what remains is very endangered. I've seen plants that have only ever been found in one area, nowhere else, and most people don't even know about how endangered they are. I find it really distressing.
I used to always watch you every
Day but I don’t have cable anymore but I was scrolling on CZcams shorts and I saw your channel then i literally just sub as soon as sawl you
The north American cheetah would be super cool, def a predator that would help keep balance on the elk, deer etc
I'm always down for repairing mistakes. Let's hope that the people repairing don't make worse ones.
Cool combos 👏
Very cool! I think I'm most excited about the wooly mammoth!
When are you going to make extinct or alive episode's again i loved them and im still watching them pls let us know when your gonna make more
I’m somewhat surprised the Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus) wasn’t listed so that’s my vote.
It’s closest living relative is the Fallow Deer (Dama)
I assume the big problem would be getting studiable DNA from the Irish Elk
Even though ive heard you say most of this on the wild times, this video was awesome
My favorite would be the Tasmanian tiger
Great pick 🖤
As a hunter it's sad to see that at one point man couldn't see the problems hunting with no regulations would have or not even thinking about it I would love to see some of these animals cloned and living again but some that went extinct with no help by man I would say is just nature love your work and look forward to more in the future thanks for the video
Time to fix our mistakes 🫡
Forrest. You are seriously the coolest person alive right now!
You NEED to make more please
Elephants are my favorite land animals, they r such graceful intelligent emotional animals. The idea that wholly mammoths may be brought back in my life time would be AMAZING. But I think the fact they r trying to bring back animals that r extinct while other animals that r currently endangered like wild elephants is kinda sad. Let's save what we have left first.
What are the implications of making the Taiga back into a savannah? Would that not do more harm to animals that have already adapted to it?
As long as all of current biomes aren't taken over it should be fine
And certain animals would probably be able to thrive on the Mammoth Stepe
The taiga, beautiful as it is, is basically a monoculture -- only a few tree species tightly packed. Of course there are species that have adapted to it but its biodiversity is incredibly low for the amount of area it covers. Some taiga animals might survive on a mammoth-steppe, others wouldn't, but it's irrelevant because the taiga is so huge no amount of hybrid mammoths would ever be able to knock it all down.
I couldn’t stop tearing up at the passenger pigeon section
Jeez man I've always watched and loved your stuff but this spoke to me especiallythe end
They said they were going to bring the Woolly mammoth back 10 years ago. It’s been 10 years and still no Woolly Mammoth.
Forrest needs to make a go fund me page for finding a thylacine in papua new guinea.. will take alot of funding but it needs to be done.
Great video
Imagine T-Rex being brought back
We’d be screwed
Forest, did you mention that there's going to be a Season 3 of Extinct or Alive. That is my second favorite show on Animal Planet! That would be so awesome if it returns for an all new season! If it's true, could you please please please do an expedition on the Megatherium and the Falkland Islands Wolf? And perhaps include species you've already searched for but strongly believe are still alive such as the Zanzibar Leopard and of course the Tasmanian Tiger.
100 percent pls do
It was canceled, unfortunately
@@simonj3413why was the show cancelled?
Just came across this video and your channel - saving this video. I am a substitute teacher and the curriculum in our district for science is based around education of animals. I can’t wait to share this information with the students.
I would love to see the Tasmanian Tiger! I first learned about it on your show and I thought it was sooo cool!❤❤
Any chance we’ll see aurochs?
Hi Forrest, love watching you. You mentioned bringing back the giant Bison, if they do that don't they also have to bring back their predator , the saber toothed tiger.
Well humans will be their predator if they overpopulate to much one day.
Then again people would pay big bucks to shoot sabertooths too
@frankieboyle8847 I'd rather trophy hunters (because the practice, sadly, I doubt will ever truly be stamped out) paying stupid money to hunt animals grown in a lab which could then be put towards the conservation of our currently endangered species then simply trying to replace them once they're gone
@@jackfenwick6182wait a minute? Sadly? Do you accept that most animals need to be hunted to some degree for the benefit of their own conservation? It always struck me as weird that people would rather some poor African nation pay a bunch of hunters to come and kill lions when they get too many instead of charging rich westerners to come and do it for them. I don't have any problem with trophy hunting as long as it's not poaching, fuck poachers. If someone's gonna do it, it may as well be willing to pay plenty of cash. We look at Africa and see these majestic animals getting shot whilst ignoring in some way the fact that hunters shoot moose, bison and deer in much the same way in the U.S. except people would rather shoot a lion or an elephant than a moose or a deer. African animals have to be controlled like any other, it's the circle of life.
@@frankieboyle8847what about smilodon?
I’d love to see all of the species you spoke about in the video come back. It would be amazing. If I had to pick just one, it would be the Tasmanian tiger.
Can you do a video about your camera setup and what you take on these expeditions
99 percent of Aliens prefer Earth 🌎
Especially the illegal ones...lol
Imagine if they bring back a Megalodon 🤣💀
Thats what I was telling my friends son lol.
I wish that they never got extinct 😢
Yeah, but nope that’s not gonna happen 😆. Because there’s not enough oxygen and low water doesn’t get enough.
Scientists are trying to bring back meglodon but they really should not
I AM SO HAPPY SOMEONE ELSE LOVES THE TT AS MUCH AS I DO 😭
Fascinating and a great deal of food for thought.
I don’t want to be six degrees colder.
I do
I do
I've been hearing the same BS for over 50 years. Smh
The Channel Islands are so beautiful! I live in SB and look at them everyday. They are so unique. I got to fly over them in a helicopter with the door off. It was breathtaking. I want to camp there so bad. Love your passion for animals and nature Forrest, so interesting.
A giant cat that hunted giant bison? I guess there are some animals that im glad I won't be running into. Other than the pigeon, the odds you gave to potentially reintroduce formerly extinct animals into the wild are pretty encouraging. I like your passion for nature and her organisms; its this enthusiasm that led me to subscribe. I hope you do end up rediscovering that mountain goat, best of luck to you!
Being from Cape Town, I would love to see the Dodo back in this beautiful landscape. 👍❤
Us too 🖤
So many species! Steller Sea Cow, Great Auk, Golden Toad, Elephant Bird/Moa, the list goes on!
It’s humbling to actually look into extinction and see how many species have been lost to obviously over hunting, or habitat loss. If we can reverse even a few, to sustainable populations, it will be amazing.
I’ve seen this guy at the Joe Rogan podcast a few times and I’m so glad I discovered his CZcams channel. So interesting I’m a big fan.
This is great ❤❤❤
I'm close to finishing my geology degree, and have had lots of time hiking and living in harsh environments. I would love to join your search in Tasmania for Thylacines.
Would love to see some of those come back!!
I need an extinct or alive S3 that show was so good
Can you do a video on the history and extinction of the Carolina Parakeet? I saw you had a taxidermy one in your hand. Also to explore how people keeping and sometimes on purpose and accidently releasing pet parrots may save some of the species. Especially in North America.🐦 🦜
“Chicken lays a really big egg”…. Ouch!!!😂😢
I’d like to see the Carolina Parakeet brought back. We have tons of preserved specimens and they are closely related to Conures.
Beautiful beard!
Very interesting
I do think that Tasmania Tiger (Thylacine) should be priority number one on bring it back. Hunters in the early 1920s drove this animal to extinction. We do owe this animal another chance back to life and I hope can bring it back someday.
A very personal choice, but I would love to see the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker come back. I’m from Arkansas and I remember when the sightings happened back when I was a kid, and the allure of the Ivory-Bill has been with me ever since.