Meet Maya! The world's first cloned Arctic wolf

Maya was born in June, in China, but Sinogene Biotechnology waited until she was 100 days old to announce her birth.

The donor cell of the wolf comes from a Wild female Artic Wolf skin sample, and an oocyte was taken from a beagle dog.

The Beijing-based genetic company, Sinogene Biotechnology, has cloned the Arctic wolf.

Dolly the sheep, which was cloned in Scotland in 1996, was created through a similar process.

Unfortunately, Dolly was euthanized at six years old due to a lung tumor.

At the moment, Maya appears to be healthy and is acting like a traditional Arctic wolf pup.

Unlike other breeds, Arctic wolves aren't endangered, but Sinogene hopes to save other threatened species.

Despite this scientific breakthrough, activists say the animals involved in the cloning process suffer in surgeries to obtain donor cells and transfer embryos.

Until Dolly, scientists believed cloning animals would be the Holy Grail, but today it is being used to revive extinct species.

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