3 extinct animals that scientists are trying to resurrect #stories #story #storytelling #facts
Wherever human beings have gone, they have driven animals to extinction, whether those animals were hunted to extinction or if were merely outcompeted. This is not a new phenomenon. Tens of thousands of years ago, the disappearance of megafauna anywhere in the world coincided with the arrival of human beings. In Europe, the famed woolly mammoth disappeared. In the Americas, strange animals like the glyptodon were hunted to extinction, and in Australia, 85% of all animals weighing over 100 pounds went extinct after humans arrived! This included omnivorous kangaroos, super-sized koalas, and enormous wombats.
More recently, human activity has caused the extinction of the moa, the passenger pigeon, and the dodo. But does this mean these species are gone forever? Here are six extinct animals that scientists want to bring back from the dead.
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