Interesting. Not quite sure how you recreate them, I assume through the plant equivalent of back breeding. The Reich tried that with several extinct breeds, horse, oxen, cattle and the like. But recent extinctions. Don’t think they were particularly successful. Interesting concept
It was explained to me by our tour guide about 6 years ago in Israel. They found 2000 year old date seeds and tested the DNA. Then they grafted the seeds and tried other ways to get the seeds to germinate.
Amazingly, they got at least on seed to germinate and produced a date palm from it. I am assuming they did the same to some grape vines or grape pits found in an excavation.
I would LOVE to taste those dates. The dates of ancient Israel were supposed to be so full of date honey that it could be collected if the dates were placed in a bowl.
When Mr. Mercat and I were in Ireland in 2006 we were wandering around in the country side and came upon a wonderful folk park where they had hogs and sheep which they had backward bred. The boors were especially interesting. The babies looked like cute little barnyard piglets but the moms look like something out of Game of Thrones. (I haven’t seen the TV shows but read the first book). The sheep were combed and not sheared. Really cool.