The Pyrenean ibex is the first animal to have been brought back from extinction through cloning and the only one to become extinct twice.

MediaFaro   MediaFaro31 July 2026
The last specimen died in 2000. Through cloning, a living Pyrenean ibex was born in 2003 but it died within minutes due to a birth defect.
An illustration of a Pyrenean Ibex from the book ‘Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct’ (1898) by Richard Lydekker.