Extinct Animals That Came Back 2020. There are some extinct species — such as the woolly mammoth, shown above — that may be brought back to life if scientists can overcome some practical hurdles and thorny ethical questions. These are known as extinct animals.

The prime reason being habitat loss and poaching. And the first step towards it is protecting and safeguarding the endangered species. Miraculously, this little shrew species is indeed still kicking.

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.

At least eight mammalian species have been extinct since the pleistocene epoch.a fossil species of the sirenia has been found on palawan and went extinct during the miocene. They are widely distributed across the archipelago, but they became extinct due to several factors. 14, 2020 efforts to protect multiple species have yielded great successes in the past several decades. But in the 1700s, the horse's arrival in the west sparked the bison's demise in north america.