7 Animals that Scientists want to de-extinct

Bucardo – Mountain Goat

Hunting and gradual destruction of its habitat led to the official extinction of the IBEX or the Mountain goat in 2000. It lived in the Spanish mountains prior to the human’s meddling of nature causing its extinction. However, it is the first animal to have been successfully cloned in 2009. Scientists eventually succeeded in placing a fertilized embryo in a female goat which gave birth to a calf after the full gestation period. But the lungs were not properly developed and the defect led to the death of the clone a few minutes later. Having achieved a milestone, the scientists went back to the dashboard immediately but hitherto another clone has not been produced.

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