To Roam Again The Pyrenees: Scientists Plan To Clone Extinct Mountain Goat

French Western Pyrenees Photo by Nicolas Guionnet, CC BY-SA 3.0 Spanish scientists are checking in on a batch of cells, frozen in liquid nitrogen 14 years ago. The cells belonged to the last bucardo, a Pyrenean sub-species of mountain goat that went extinct in 2000, and researchers have received funding to see if the cells might be all right for a round of cloning, the BBC reports. 1898 Illustration of Bucardo Illustration by Joseph Wolf, from the book Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, livi...