Equine Clones

11 years ago on August 6th, Prometea - a cloned Halflinger foal - was born. She was the first successfully cloned horse, and the horse became the 7th animal to have been cloned.

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Prometea facts:

-weighed 36 kg at birth

-weighed 100 kg at 2 months

-Dr. Cesare Galli and others experimented at a lab with 841 reconstructed embryos - of the 14 applicable embryos, four were implanted into the delegate mothers. Only Prometea succeeded in being born.

-was born in Italy

-Prometea in the feminine form of Prometheus
-She is still alive today, but Italian scientists keep people from viewing this horse. 

*this Halflinger foal is not Prometea