Cloned Ferret Gives Birth

[Axtremus]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/11/05/cloned-ferret-gives-birth/

An endangered animal that was created by cloning gave birth to two healthy offspring at a Smithsonian Institution/National Zoo center in Virginia, in what a federal agency called a conservation milestone.

Authorities indicated that techniques used in their work with black-footed ferrets could help preserve other endangered species.

The two ferrets were born in June to a cloned mother at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.

[George K]

Next thing you know, they'll be pulling DNA out of insects in amber.

[Axtremus]

But everyone knows the real prize is big lizards.

[George K]

@Axtremus said in Cloned Ferret Gives Birth:

the real prize is big lizards

I've read that dinosaurs might not qualify as "lizards." Some evidence (which I'm too lazy to look up) that the were warm-blooded. After all, they did become birds.

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in Cloned Ferret Gives Birth:

@Axtremus said in Cloned Ferret Gives Birth:

the real prize is big lizards

I've read that dinosaurs might not qualify as "lizards." Some evidence (which I'm too lazy to look up) that the were warm-blooded. After all, they did become birds.

Agree. That is what I have hear also. Birds are the closest living relatives to dinosaurs.

Anyway, cloning is scary stuff for me.

[Axtremus]

So ... ?