What happened to Dolly, the cloned sheep? Did she ever have offspring and is she still alive?
Since her creation, Dolly, cloned from a mammary cell of a six-year-old sheep, has been big news. We hoped she was still making headlines as we set out to learn her fate. After several searches and some serious digging, we learned that Dolly did indeed give birth — on April 13, 1998, she had a healthy lamb named Bonnie. And a year later, she gave birth to triplets. All were conceived “the old fashioned way.” Checking on her current status, we turned up an article from CNN.com that stated that in March of 2001, Dolly and the rest of the livestock housed at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland, were threatened by the foot-and-mouth epidemic sweeping throu
