> The colt is a clone of a male Przewalski's horse and the first successful cloning of the species, San Diego Zoo officials said in a news release on September 4. It was born August 6 to a domestic surrogate mother.
I just wanted to note how nonchalant this paragraph sounded in the context of the rest of the article. I remember the cloned sheep over a decade ago, but is animal cloning now so common a procedure that we've moved on from "Oh-em-gee, we cloned an animal!" to species bingo?
The DNA may have been perfectly preserved in lab conditions and we've got a sister species to carry the embryo so it's not comparable, but this is the first step to Jurassic park!
I just wanted to note how nonchalant this paragraph sounded in the context of the rest of the article. I remember the cloned sheep over a decade ago, but is animal cloning now so common a procedure that we've moved on from "Oh-em-gee, we cloned an animal!" to species bingo?
The DNA may have been perfectly preserved in lab conditions and we've got a sister species to carry the embryo so it's not comparable, but this is the first step to Jurassic park!