Embryos of world's most endangered cat preserved
Monday, March 25, 2013 - 11:31
in Biology & Nature
By Megan GannonLiveScienceIt seems counterintuitive that castration could help save a species facing extinction. But through removing the ovaries of a female Iberian lynx, scientists say they were able to collect and preserve embryos from the world's most endangered wild cat for the first time.Conservationists are hoping the fertilized eggs could be implanted into a surrogate mother of a closely r...