Friday, November 29, 2013

Jurassic Park, er Goat, er Goat Park

The Spaniards have decided to give another go at bringing back an local goat species that went extinct in 2000, the bucardo. The have a batch of cells frozen in liquid nitrogen that they want to use to make embryo celia cells to plant them in a fertile goat so that she can be the mother of the new species.

Read on.

Very cool and I wish them all the luck. If successful it will be a first step toward rescuing lots of species…which can have both good and bad consequences.

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