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Cloning Brings Extinct Ibex Back to Life

Breakthrough may be used to save endangered species

By Amelia Atlas,  Newser User

Posted Feb 1, 2009 6:07 AM CST

(Newser) – Scientists have used frozen skin samples from a Spanish ibex to create the first clone of an extinct species, reports the Telegraph. The ibex, a wild mountain goat native to the Pyrenees, died out in 2000. Scientists were able to extract DNA from preserved cells...   Read full story »

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