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Scientists In Italy Fertilize 7 Northern White Rhino Eggs

posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 27 2019, @07:14PM   
from the I-know-what-they-mean dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Eggs removed from the last two female northern white rhinos have been fertilized with sperm from the now-dead last male, but it will be about 10 days before it's known whether the eggs have become embryos, an Italian assisted-breeding company said Monday.

"We expect some of them will develop into an embryo," Cesare Galli, a founder of Avantea and an expert in animal cloning, said.

Avantea said that only seven of 10 eggs extracted last week from the females in Kenya could be used in the fertilization attempts Sunday using frozen sperm that had been taken from the male, which died in March 2018.

Wildlife experts and veterinarians are hoping that the species can reproduce via a surrogate mother rhino.

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• not really sarcasm (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 27 2019, @08:32PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 27 2019, @08:32PM (#886366)

  hey, this is cool. Now they can go extinct a second time!
  at least bury the last one in a good muddy spot so future archeologists have a reason to apply for grant monies?

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