A few years back, a team of scientists used the DNA of a dead bucardo, a wild goat indigenous to the Pyrenees Mountains that went extinct in 2000, to create bucardo embryos. These were implanted in 57 regular (as in not extinct) goats’ wombs. One of the embryos made it to term. That’s right: a regular goat gave birth to a once-extinct bucardo goat in 2003. Granted, the bucardo didn’t live long; it managed to survive for only several minutes after its birth.
