How to Bring an Extinct Animal Back to Life 

"You won't let me live, now you won't let me die"

humans: "I took you out of this world, and I can bring you back"

Resurrecting mammoths would be such a dub. Imagine if people were able to bring back woolly mammoths from extinction and bring back an entire biome as a result.

If we bring any animal back, I think the Dodo should be first. We were the main cause of their extinction both directly and indirectly. Apparently the Dodos, who had no natural predators, were unafraid of settlers to the point of trying to play with them. I have an alternate history scenario in my head where Dodos were taken more as pets rather than food, so different breeds of dodo arose, much like how dogs diversified. If some guy didnt decide to skip lunch that day, we couldve had "bird doggos". We were on the verge of greatness, we were THIS close!

Bringing back old builds is a great idea, it's just a shame that the Devs lost the source code for the dinosaur class.

I actually want to see a 12 foot tall sabertooth cat walking... from a distance in an armoured vehicle.

Sadly it is an illusion that backbreeding really could recreate an extinct animal. They just create knock-offs. But lets appreciate it even so because they preserve some rare and pristine genes while working their projects.

Moral of the story Save what you have 🙏

7:24 - What a perfectly timed moment.

"Life, uh... finds a way."

This video is just a series of ideas that sound great on paper, and will probably work in practice... _But can equally go terribly wrong._ I love it.

If humans pulled the trigger to doom the animals, then I'm all in, even the saber tooth cat would have a spot to fill with a mammoth type elephant , however you have to train the locals to adjust to the animals and not harass them or let illegal hunters interfere with the conservation efforts.

"me" you telling me this is a single-person organized channel and you do all of that amazing work by your self, that is impressive

the sheep clip when you started talking about cloning is awesome. great fit!

Question: Hypothetically, could we compile genome sequencing data from various specimens of a particular species too old for its DNA to be intact to complete it enough for de-extinction? Or is it too improbable for the gaps in the data from different specimens to align?

The cloning of the Przewalski horse was a success as well.

4:00 If you were able to find enough DNA samples of a given species, I wonder if you could use parts from one to fill in the gaps of the other

Imagine we de-estinct an animal, only to find out that animal is horrible, and then we re-estinct that animal on purpose!

This video has some of the best footage ever on youtube.

Love the music in this one! If anyone is curious, most of the songs are from Adrian Berenguers album Still Life.

We can’t even keep today’s animals from going extinct 😖

It is tragic that the mass extinction of amphibians is not receiving more attention. It seems to be getting worse than the Permian mass extinction. Yet almost no one knows about it.

Mammoths when they got revived: "I'm in this world again?! But the other one was way cooler!"

9:10 bruh I was actually happy that they managed to bring them back and that sentence removed my smile off my face :(

Ok but CAN we get a mouse mammoth hybrid? I want a pet mammoth the size of a big dog, that would be rad.

0:15 “12 foot tall sabre tooth cats roam,” they went that big. They were the same size as a modern day lion or tiger. Some were smaller than that at the size of a leopard or jaguar.

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” Jeff goldblum

humans: 7% species loss mother nature: You Gotta Pump Those Numbers Up, Those Are Rookie Numbers

So technically it's not quagga it's more like breeding a color mutated zebra ?

I’m looking forward to see the Tasmanian Tiger brought back from extinction because they could help control the fox and rabbit populations but the Cain toad would be a problem. One possible suitable maternal host would be the Tasmanian Devil or it’s also another closer relative the Tiger quoll.

The "g" in quagga is pronounced like the "j" in jelapeno but a bit more gutteral. I remember reading a while back that another problem with cloning from adult material is that the clone inherits the length of tellomeres from the original source, greatly reducing it's lifespan. Not sure if they fixed that. Cool video.

7:03 "NO" "HELP" love it when small bits of humour pop up in interesting scientific presentations.

been waiting for this ever since atlas pro posted pleistocene park

I think we need to save the animals that exist today before trying to use dna to bring back a mammoth no matter how amazing that would be.

I've actually been to one of the Quagga back-breeding centers in South Africa and it felt like a trip to Jurassic Park

The first time I heard about Nebula and showed other youtubers about history, science, nature and more with content creators I was already watching, it felt like a movie crossover

This was an excellent video, thank you for making it ^^

"You spend your time thinking you can, you'll never cease for a minute to think if you ever should." Those wild bees though, where do I volunteer to bee a caretaker.

Ah, it's finally uploaded. Nice collab with AtlasPro

I would love it if they brought back the Moa bird in newzealand.

Imagine disliking these videos

When polar bears go extinct then paint a grizzly bear white

12:54 Mammoths went extinct closer to like, 4,000 years ago, not 10,000. Google's first result says 10,000, but, digging a little deeper one quickly finds this number to be inaccurate, while the vast majority of the population was gone by around 8,000 BC, pockets continued to exist in more isolated regions for another 6,000 years. For context, that means Mammoths were still alive when the Pyramids were built.

Imagine backbreeding chickens into T-rexes

You should try to de-extinct plants first. Like the North American chestnut tree.

My aunt is an animal trainer, she has a skunk that’s destinked.. I’ll see myself out..

Reminds me of a story about a futuristic amusement park where dinosaurs are brought to life through advanced cloning techniques. I call it "Billy and the Cloneasaurus."

you should have mentioned the mammoth step, reviving mammoths and placing them there has a lot of benefits.

I was waiting for this video. Liked right away😁

Ahh there it is~ Some freakishly tall ice-age enthousiast let slip you were working on this ;) Interesting topic. I can't say I'm a fan of the backbreeding approach personally, selecting for appearance doesn't necessarily mean the look-a-like will match the extinct species in terms of behavior too. Selecting for behavior rather than appearance (the other way around) might be the better option if you ask me; There's an ongoing project in Russia with the aim of domesticating foxes - they've reported that their foxes are starting to not just act more like dogs, they are starting to look more and more like them too, even though that's not what the researchers are selecting them for. I think cloning is probably the more promising of the two approaches, especially combined with tools like CRISPR+CAS9. They seem to be focusing exclusively on the nuclear DNA though, which I think might be the reason for the health problems you see in many young cloned animals. Mitochondrial DNA codes for some important stuff... The encoded genes play an important role in metabolism, just to name one.

So an AMAZING video. Never stop doing such high-quality content. I love real science and real engineering channels, and am subscribed to Curiosity platform. Let me know any other way to support your impressive effort.

I am glad I found this channel. Each Vedio just blows my mind.

Bro I just want them to bring back dodos, they are just cooler chickens

"Twelve foot tall" sabre-tooth cats eh? You mean 12 foot *long*?

Tropical Asian here. Cane toads are an invasive species here too. At least i havent seen ones as big as bullfrogs.

i-can-see-you by angel-salazar is such a banger!! although I wouldn't call the mood carefree, lol. Glad to see RU-vidrs sharing the music that they are using openly, and props to whoever chose that particular track!! + evgeny bardyuzha seems to make some nice trance bangers x3 keep the interesting choices up!!

This channel is still underrated...smh

See you at Jurassic Park

"is a jurassic park styled zoo filled with extinct animals actually possible?" no, because they wouldn't be extinct anymore

Mammoth: Hello Sexy Elephant: Say Wha?

I have to say that I really enjoy the thoroughness that they go through with these videos. Extinction is a very serious issue, but the issues of reversing extinction can have a huge impact on the ecosystems that have been developed. Personally, I think that back breeding might be a more stable solution... While it might be slow, I think that it is a lesser shock to the ecosystem as a whole.

Amazing content, keep it up!

great video, lots of different aspects

Cloning + memory transfer technology = immortality.

Your videos keep on mesmerizing me 🤩 keep up!

when you breed zebras to look like quaggas, you get exactly that, a zebra that looks like a quagga, it will not be an actual quagga. with genetic engeneering it may end up closer to the real thing but stil...

I think the problem is where would we put them, some of the ecosystems either are different or no longer exist/ don't have the capacity. Like the Dodo, which lived of the Island of Mauritius which only have 4% of the original forest left.

Mammoths would surly be great in siberia or canada and could help with the tundra plains and tasmanian tigers could also be a great part in their old homes but some others can truely make more harm than good

Excellent work

Love your work ma'am!

One factor that everyone seems to overlook on extinction / de-extinction is: Bionomes. I think micro extinctions are a thing that affect the macro world. Back breeding is like putting a body kit on a fierro and calling it a Porsche

Let’s not forget about the wholly rhino it is fairly closely related to the Sumatran rhinoceros.

Man I was waiting this video

Welcome to Jurassic Park!

1 minute 42 seconds to summarise what David Jason managed to do easily in the intro to Prehistoric Park. 😅. Great show.

Why didn't the scientists use a elephant DNA to repair damaged mammoth DNA instead of rat since they are more closely related? I'm sure the scientists had their reasons but I cant pin point it.

Great content!

I think it's our responsibility to bring back animals that we hunted down to extinction in the last 50-100 year. Or at least we should try to prevent species from dying out in the future.

I Will Be Very Happy If, Woolly Mammoth and Saber Tooth Will Come Back.

Your videos have an extreme amount of detailing which can only be achieved by painstaking research. Your hard work literally shows at each minute of the video.

Now I want to see a mouse/ Mammoth abomination lol.

This was the video I subscribed for!

humans are legit playing god right now

Brilliant video!!

Bringing an extinct animal back to life. Step 1 - fucking dont

Nice video👍

Kinda trippy when you consider the fate of the young mammoth that froze is potentially going to revive its entire species.

Great stuff -- thanks!

no shoutout to that atlas channel that shouted you out for this vid?

Brilliant bravo

human's: i have power, i can take you out and bring you back

The first scientist or scientists who manages to do this should get a noble prize.

Nice video

Great! 👍

Bruh just dont bring back them we already have something to worry about

Would it be possible to get a more complete genome from an extinct species by comparing DNA of different cells? (filling in gaps of missing DNA)

this give me a chill somehow

Any species we killed off, yeah. Any species mother nature killed off? Nah. She had her reasons.

This is cool and all but such a lofty and difficult goal. I think humans need to work on the species that are still alive rather than the ones that are gone

So, "We are so busy asking if we could, that we never stopped to ask if we should" - the guy from Thor ragnorok I think.