Likely the first extinction event of the 2000s in Europe, the sad history of the Pyrenean Ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) is a powerful example of the ever-increasing species loss worldwide due to ...

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In what could raise hopes for the regeneration of extinct species, scientists have for the first time resurrected the Pyrenean ibex, a wild mountain goat, by cloning it from frozen tissue. The ...

The Pyrenean ibex was a subspecies of ibex that lived across the Pyrenees; due to hunting and other pressures, by the late 20th century the animals were relegated to Ordesa National Park in Spain. The ...

Scientists have come close to bringing an extinct species back to life for the first time with the birth of a cloned Pyrenean ibex, a type of mountain goat that is believed to have died out completely ...

Biologists briefly brought the extinct Pyrenean ibex back to life in 2003 by creating a clone from a frozen tissue sample harvested before the goat's entire population vanished in 2000. The clone ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The last Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica ...

A bumper litter of kids has helped the distinctive, long-horned wild goats to prosper after being introduced from Spain The population of ibex recently introduced to the French Pyrenees is thriving ...

The Pyrenean ibex, a form of wild mountain goat, was officially declared extinct in 2000 when the last-known animal of its kind was found dead in northern Spain. Shortly before its death, scientists ...