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  • Do you miss an old pet? Still mourning a deceased dog you had a special bond with? The UK's first commercial clinic for cloning is giving people the chance to recreate their favorite animal.

  • Scientists are on the verge of bringing extinct animals like the woolly mammoth, Pyrenean ibex, and Tasmanian tiger back to life.

  • Thousands of people have turned to cloning to bring back, in part, their deceased pets, and one company stands out in this market.

  • After a Montana man illegally cloned and bred an endangered giant sheep species, government agencies must now contend with the illicit offspring.

  • Marco Polo sheep are the largest in the world, weighing up to 300 pounds, and the cloning process created an even larger hybrid animal.

  • In 1979, the black-footed ferret was believed to be extinct.

  • For the first time, an endangered black-footed ferret named Antonia that was cloned from cryogenically-preserved tissue has given birth to two kits.

  • Sibert and Red Cloud, black-footed ferret siblings at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, are the first members of an endangered species born to a cloned animal.

  • A Montana man has been sentenced to six months in prison for trafficking a clone of a near-threatened Marco Polo argali sheep.

  • Scientists say the births of two ferrets are the first time a cloned endangered species has reproduced in a conservation program.

  • "Cloning is growing as fast as we can effectively manage the growth,’’ said Blake Russell, the president of ViaGen and ViaGen Pets.

  • The European Union assembly on Tuesday tightened a 2013 proposal by EU regulators that would provisionally prohibit the cloning of some animals -- cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and horses -- and the .