Extinct Animals That Came Back 2020. At the time of this writing, there are presently sixteen animals listed on the worldwildlife.org website as being critically endangered, meaning they are on the brink of extinction. Via extinct animals the pyrenean mountain ibex is one of the most recently extinct species on this list, and one of the most recently extinct species of the world for that matter.
Scientists plan to bring them back by selectively breeding cattle species, some of which are carriers of auroch dna. But in the 1700s, the horse's arrival in the west sparked the bison's demise in north america. 27 amazing animals that are almost extinct the holocene extinction , or the sixth extinction, has already cost the world thousands of beloved species due to human activity.
Of course, poaching is still a major concern—but the species is currently back from the brink.
Wild animals may go extinct by 2020. Although this event has been ongoing for the past 10,000 years or so—since the last ice age, to be exact—the mass extinction has been accelerating at a dizzying pace. We're kinda glad we don't have to face off against them. The last time anyone recorded a sighting of the somali elephant shrew was almost 50 years ago, after which, it was assumed to have become extinct.
