Five years ago, if I had read a headline like "Dubai Claims World's First Cloned Camel," I would have treated it like an email from a Nigerian businessman. These days, however, anytime I see a story about a woman extracting sperm from her dead son, or someone trying to reanimate a sabretooth tiger, I pretty much take it as gospel.
And unless PhysOrg.com is scamming me, I'm pretty sure that there's now a camel running around some Middle Eastern cage that has the same genetic makeup as another camel that was sold for meat four years earlier.
The only thing that made me think for a second that it was a hoax: the director of the lab that did the deed is named Dr. Lulu Skidmore.
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