Fresh effort to clone extinct animal

[jakeXT]

Scientists in Spain have received funding to test whether an extinct mountain goat can be cloned from preserved cells.

The bucardo became extinct in 2000, but cells from the last animal were frozen in liquid nitrogen.

In 2003, a cloned calf was brought to term but died a few minutes after birth.

Now, the scientists will test the viability of the female bucardo's 14-year-old preserved cells.

The bucardo calf born through cloning was an historic event: the first "de-extinction", in which a lost species or sub-species was resurrected.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25052233