The same technology could be applied to any other extinct species from which one can obtain hair, horn, hooves, fur or feathers, and which went extinct within the last 60,000 years, the effective age limit for DNA.
In Britain we have one breeding species clinging on, the red-backed shrike, which went extinct in 1989 but has made a comeback: a few pairs have nested in Devon and elsewhere in recent years.
Some infiltrated the nearby crafts market, buying spiced rum, carved elephants and baskets embossed with dodo birds, which went extinct on Mauritius after the arrival of the Dutch in the 1600s.
In Fig. 3, mice is a sensitive species, which goes extinct as soon as grains disappear.
You've probably heard about efforts to bring back the woolly mammoth, the last of which went extinct around 4,000 years ago.
In Eurasia, we would find the aurochs, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of today's domestic cattle, which went extinct in the 15th century, and the giant Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus), the largest deer of all time (Fig. 10a).
A new paper challenges the popular conception that this pigeon, which went extinct more than 300 years ago, was comically plump, instead arguing that it weighed just a bit more than a wild turkey.
Or the Barbary lion, the biggest and heaviest lion that was used by the Romans to fight gladiators, and which went extinct in 1922 when a hunter shot the last one.
Pochutec is a scantily attested language which went extinct in the 20th century, and which Campbell and Langacker classify as being outside of general Aztec.
Scientists from UCLA and two South African universities used an unusual technique to investigate behavior of the cats, which went extinct more than 10,000 years ago.
