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Found this pretty interesting. I had no idea that they have been keeping frozen cells of extinct/endangered animals since the 70s. Sounds pretty promising considering how fast species are disappearing.
Full articleAstounding even veterans of the fight against animal extinction, cloning technology has reproduced two endangered wild cattle bulls, each born to dairy cows last week on an Iowa farm.
The procedure that created the bantengs has given animal conservationists hope that cross-species breeding can help reverse the daily disappearance of 100 living species and add genetic diversity to dwindling animal populations.