A scientific breakthrough is giving a boost to the nation’s endangered black-footed ferret population. Scientists have cloned the endangered species but the wild part is that they did it from one that died 30 years ago.
Elizabeth Ann is a black-footed ferret and was born in December 2020 in a Colorado lab. Scientists said it’s the first time a U.S.
endangered species has ever been cloned. [TRENDING: Tiger Woods’ leg shattered in rollover crash | Orlando City player faces sex charge | Woman loses $100,000 to romance conman] Scientists are calling this a game-changing breakthrough, as the black-footed ferret population was believed to be extinct until a small population was discovered in Wyoming in 1981.