De-extinction
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De-extinction is the process of human intervention to generate an organism that either resembles or is an extinct organism. There are several ways to carry out the process of de-extinction. Cloning is
Methuselah, the first resurrected Judean date palm through germination of 2000 year old seeds found in the Masada excavations in the 1960s
Drawing of the Montreal melon, a de-extinct cultiver of melon
A bull from the Taurus Project, a project aiming to de-extinct the aurochs through back breeding modern domesticated cattle.
Reenactment of a moa hunt in the early 1900s
Endling
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An endling is the last known individual of a species or subspecies. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct. The word was coined in correspondence in the scientific journal Nature.
De-extinction
…Martha's Vineyard. Despite conservation efforts, the subspecies became extinct in 1932 following the disappearance and presumed death of Booming Ben, the final known member of the subspecies. In the summer of 2014, non-profit organisation, Revive & Restore held a meeting with the community of Martha's Vineyard to announce…
The last known thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), photographed at Hobart Zoo in 1933
Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died in the Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914.
A dusky seaside sparrow (Ammospiza maritima nigrescens), officially declared extinct in 1990
A quagga mare at the London Zoo in 1870. This is the only specimen photographed alive.