Incredible story of the first cloned endangered species. An endangered Asian ox called a gaur was born to a domestic cow. Even more mind-blowing is that the science team used an 8-year old frozen cell for the experiment, proof that cloning can be successful for species management.

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Cloning and Conservation

On January 8, 2001, a healthy baby gaur—a large ox-like animal whose populations are now threatened throughout much of their native range from India to Southeast Asia—was born. In Sioux Center, Iowa. To a cow named Bessie. The baby bull, named Noah, was a clone: the first clone of a threatened species, and the first animal ever created by inserting the DNA of one species into the egg of another.

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