An 80-year-old man in Montana pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony wildlife crimes involving his plan to let paying customers hunt sheep on private ranches. But these weren’t just any old sheep. They were “massive hybrid sheep” created by illegally importing animal parts from central Asia, cloning the sheep, and then breeding an enormous hybrid species.
I remember shortly after Dolly was born, everyone was talking about cloning.
Then a few months later China claimed to clone a monkey (it was eventually found to be fake)
But everyone was silent about it after the initial news release. Almost no one was talking about it and most people don’t even remember it.
I think this was on purpose to hide the fact that we already have human clones and the first ones are likely 20+ years old now.
Primates are much harder to clone than sheep. Here’s an interesting article about the 2018 cloning and the 2022 cloning of which news just came out recently. https://bioethicsobservatory.org/2024/02/primate-cloning-a-step-forwards-or-backwards/45931/