Dolly the cloned sheep’s cloned predecessor is now on display

Curator Zena Timmons preparing Morag (Picture: National Museums Scotland/PA Wire)

A cloned sheep that helped pave the way for Dolly – the first ever genetically copied adult mammal – will be on display in a museum.

Morag and her identical twin Megan were cloned from the same embryo, making them the first to be replicated from differentiated cells in 1995.

The sisters’ births in June 1995 at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh were a technical breakthrough that showed cloning complex beings is possible.