General Article The first endangered American animal has been cloned

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Last summer a horse named Kurt was born in Texas. Kurt wasn’t just any horse—he was a clone made from DNA that had been frozen for 40 years and came from an endangered wild horse species from Central Asia.

Kurt was—and still is—pretty special. But now he’s got some competition for the ti ftle of ‘most amazing endangered animal cloned from frozen DNA.’ The new contender is a black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann.

Elizabeth Ann was born in December in a conservation center in Colorado, the re...

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