Monday, 22 February 2010

Dolly & Royana, we hardly knew ye!


On this day (22 Feb) in 1996, Dolly, the first mammal, the first sheep, to have been successfully cloned was born in Scotland. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/22/newsid_4245000/4245877.stm


And on this day in 2010, Royana, the Middle East's first, Iran's first cloned sheep, has been put down. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119220&sectionid=3510208

RIP sheep.

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