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For the first time, scientists cloned an endangered US animal. She is "Elizabeth Ann", a black-footed ferret who was conceived in a | Latin America | CNN

For the first time, scientists cloned an endangered US animal.

She is "Elizabeth Ann," a black-legged ferret who was conceived in a laboratory from frozen cells from another ferret that lived more than 30 years ago.

Black-legged ferrets were declared extinct in 1979, but a small population was later discovered in Wyoming.

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