“Unearthed frozen specimen of small sabertooth cat, unfamiliar species. Notably, DNA is both intact enough for cloning, & suggests various modern felid species that could carry the embryo. More details to come”

“Working with geneticists. Clone implantation appears successful. Now we watch & wait”

“Born today! Isn’t he cute? Of course no photos of the biological parents– being long extinct, they obviously can’t be here– but here he is with his surrogate mom.”

“in answer to your clerical question: our paperwork system has yet to be updated for this new type of procedure, so we had to register him as the same species that birthed him. He’s legally an ocelot”