In what is being called one of the most groundbreaking — and controversial — scientific achievements of the century, a team of geneticists has successfully recreated a living saber-toothed tiger cub using advanced cloning and gene-editing technology. The cub, born in a controlled laboratory environment earlier this month, was engineered using preserved DNA from a Smilodon fatalis specimen — a species that went extinct over 10,000 years ago. The scientists, part of a multinational project dubbed