Saturday, February 20, 2021

Cloning an Endangered US Animal



CLONE, CLONE ON THE RANGE....

Where the deer and the antelope play...

Scientists have cloned an endangered US animal for the first time, creating a Black-footed Ferret named “Elizabeth Ann” from the frozen cells of an ancestor.

The primary threat to Black-footed Ferrets? Bubonic plague carried into western American Prairie Dog colonies by a black rat that hitched a train ride from San Francisco. The plague first came to San Francisco on ships from China around 1900. 

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