A ferret is the first North American endangered animal to be cloned:
Animal cloning might just become a valuable tool in preserving species that might otherwise go extinct. BBC News says US Fish and Wildlife Service has successfully cloned a black-footed ferret — the first genetic copy of a North American endangered species. Elizabeth Ann, born on December 10th, was produced from the frozen cells of Willa, a ferret that lived over 30 years ago. A team at ViaGen Pets & Equine created embryos and implanted them in a domestic ferret surrogate.
The black-footed ferret is North America's only native ferret, and was thought to have gone extinct until a Wyoming rancher found a small group of them in 1981. They've since been part of a captive breeding program.
A short video and some pics of Elizabeth Anne are available on twitter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 23 2021, @03:56AM (2 children)
They cloned Frank Burns?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 23 2021, @04:22AM
Who are you calling Ferret Face?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 23 2021, @06:47AM
Frank Burns was an European ferret-face! Obvious white privilege, and alt-right tendencies, in the 1950's. So Sad. (Sack).
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 23 2021, @07:03AM
The real endangered species in Wyoming right now are actual Republicans! They want to censure Cheney? I could understand the war-criminal torturer father, but Lynn has done nothing wrong, other than being his daughter and frauduently purchasing an in-state fishing license. But seems the Wyomingites have gone full toxic Republican. They lose money on coal and oil, but do it just to stick it to the libs, and thumb their noses (such is not frostbitten off, yet) at the "enviroes", while watching their cattle die from bad water. So sad, so demented, so deplorable. And, they failed to steal that county from Colorado [coloradosun.com]. Really sad.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 23 2021, @04:36PM
Hopefully they can genetically re-engineer the ferrets to help in the search for Hunter Biden's Laptop... the FBI seems to have lost it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 24 2021, @03:54PM
Everything about Hunter Biden is off-topic, everywhere on this little tiny forum. How about a Hunter Biden thread? How about anything that shows the current fascist trend in its true light? How about realizing that this forum is marginalizing itself as fast as it can?