First cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, born

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5 July, 1996

Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was born on 5th July 1996.

Dolly was a female domestic sheep and was cloned by Sir Ian Wilmut and his team at the Roslin Institute. The project was funded by PPL Therapeutics, a biotechnology company in Edinburgh and the Ministry of Agriculture.