Paleontologists found a new species of echinoderm that was halfway through the process of regeneration when it died.
An incredible 155-million-year-old fossil shows a starfish-like creature cloning itself.
University Chaplain David O'Leary stated that the Roman Catholic Church has not issued a decree on animal cloning, but that he personally sees a benefit to cloning if it is to be used to better human .
Embryos hold the secrets of regeneration, reproduction, and maybe even human immortality.
The brittle star specimen suggests that the sea creatures have been splitting themselves in two to reproduce for more than 150 million years.
“Science takes time and does not happen instantaneously,” Szuszwalak wrote.
Captive breeding, habitat restoration, and cloning is a much better way to save a species than shoveling animals onto a mythical boat two-by-two (talk about genetic bottlenecks!), but survival of .
Not all types of animals can currently be cloned because of cloning technology’s reliance on surrogates and live births.
Let me begin by saying that I do not support human cloning.
But cloning could offer an answer.