Unveiling the Secrets: Top 8 Incredible and Mind-Blowing Facts About Cloning You Never Knew!

1. Dolly Parton's Sheep Twin

Ever wondered why a cloned sheep bleats in C-sharp while looking fabulous? Well, the secret lies in her diva-inspired origins: The first mammal cloned from an adult cell, Dolly the sheep was named after singer Dolly Parton due to her abundance of mammary glands, but it was actually a cell from a six-year-old Finn Dorset sheep's mammary gland that made her extraordinary debut possible.
Source => dolly.roslin.ed.ac.uk

2. The Mammalian Phoenix

In a heart-wrenching game of "Ibex It and You Bring It Back," the Pyrenean ibex briefly had a second chance at life like a hairy mammalian phoenix: In 2003, a cloned bucardo, extinct since 2000, was born using frozen skin, but only survived for a few tragic minutes after birth.
Source => nationalgeographic.com

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3. Celebrity Pet Cloning Service

Step aside, Dr. Frankenstein: there's a new pet whisperer on the block capable of resurrecting beloved feline friends and lovable canine chums with gene magic! ViaGen Pets, the very company that cloned Barbra Streisand's Maltipoo, has perfected the art of cloning cats and dogs. For a cool $50,000 (or a discounted $35,000 if you're a cat enthusiast), they pluck skin samples from your furry companion and fuse them with a donor egg, leading to an embryo, identical in genes to the dearly departed or aging pet, that is then implanted into a surrogate mother.
Source => foxnews.com

4. Cloned Cows: Off the Menu

Don't have a cow, man: cloned animals are not usually used for meat production due to their rarity and expense, but most of the around 600 cloned animals in the United States are, however, used for breeding, and their offspring, made the old-fashioned way, are served as meat and milk.
Source => ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

5. Snuppy: Canine Matchmaker

When the Afghan hound's ear failed to listen to the dog whistle of science, it turned to playing matchmaker instead: Snuppy, the first cloned dog, was created in 2005 using a cell from an adult Afghan hound's ear, involving 123 surrogate mothers, and went on to father 10 puppies after his sperm successfully inseminated two cloned females in 2008, while in 2017, four more Snuppys were made to investigate cloning's potential health effects.
Source => en.wikipedia.org

6. Wildlife Librarian Resurrection

Did you know that scientists moonlight as "wildlife librarians," saving animals one frozen cell at a time? Their job: to preserve the cell samples of more than a thousand species, including our departed furry friends from the past, so that they can give birth to them again in the future! Who knew humankind had the power to un-extinct the un-extant by the sheer force of frozenness? Curiouser and curiouser: The goal is to use this extensive library of still-living cells to create clones of endangered or extinct species, such as the northern white rhinoceros, by turning frozen skin cells into embryos and implanting them into surrogate southern white rhino moms.
Source => slate.com

7. Dolly's Movie Coincidence

When the movie "Multiplicity" decided to take the concept of "two's company, three's a crowd" to a whole new (and zanier) level with a partially botched cloning experiment, little did they know they were mere months away from a woolly plot twist: Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, was born several months later in February 1997, forever etching her cuddly name in the annals of science history.
Source => en.wikipedia.org

8. Iranian Cloning for Medicine

Who knew that the Land of the Ayatollah and Persian rugs had a sheep side? The woolly truth is being unraveled: Iran's cloning program focuses on medical research, specifically using cloned animals like a sheep in 2006 and a goat in 2009, to produce medicine for stroke patients. Shiite Muslim religious leaders have authorized animal cloning but strictly banned human reproductive cloning.
Source => nbcnews.com