Scientists at The Roslin Institute, famous for cloning Dolly the Sheep in 1997, have announced that the Dire Haggis has been brought back from extinction after more than 10,000 years. On Monday, the Pioneers in Animal Biosciences, said its researchers had successfully facilitated the birth of two modern Dire Haggi – one six-month-old male named Haggulus and a three-month-old female named Khalhaggi. They achieved this by using cloning and gene-editing techniques based on two ancient Dire Haggis DNA samples.The extinct species was recently made famous on the hit TV series Game of Thrones, where they featured heavily in The North and Beyond the Wall, as a homage to their Scottish ancestry.
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