AN EXTINCT species could soon be brought back from the dead. Advanced Cell Technology of Worcester, Massachusetts, plans to clone the bucardo, a species of Spanish mountain goat that died out earlier this year.
The company has shown that it can be done by cloning a wild ox called a gaur using the eggs of domestic cows. When “Noah” is born next month, he will be the first animal ever created by putting the DNA of one species into the eggs of another.
Conservationists warn that the breakthrough should not be an excuse to relax efforts, though. “As a last…
