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July 04, 2002 Endangered species cloned For the first time the American scientists have cloned an endangered species by using the eggs and the womb of another animal - a cow. An Asian "Gaur" - a hump-backed , ox-like animal native to India and Burma was cloned from a single skin cell taken from a dead " Gaur". Scientists fused the cells with a cow's egg, whose genes had been removed, then transferred it into the womb of another cow, named Bessie. Bessie's "gaur", named Noah, is due to be born next month. It is the first endangered species to be cloned, and the first cloned animal to gestate in the womb of another species. The Massachusetts scientists, who created Noah, are laying plans to clone the endangered Giant Pandas, including perhaps the Washington National Zoo's Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, who dies in 1992 and 1999 and whose cells sit frozen in liquid nitrogen in Frederick. Later this year, they intend to clone a species of Spanish mountain goat that was listed as endangered until nine months ago, when the last known individual died.
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