The Quagga reborn
Hunted to extinction on the plain of South Africa, the last known quagga died in 1883. A zebralike animal, it had a brownish coat with distinct stripes only on its forequarters. But the Quagga could live again. DNA from preserved skin has revealed that the quagga was a subspecies of the zebra, not a separate species as once thought. Scientist believe that quagga genes survive in the zebra population and by generations of selective breeding of brownish zebras with poorly striped coats they hope to produce quaggalike animal.