Dolly the sheep

3D Model

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the birth of Dolly the Sheep, the first cloned mammal to be created from an adult cell.

Dolly was born on 5 July 1996 at the Roslin Institute, Scotland of a Scottish Blackface surrogate mother. She died on 14 February 2003.

See Dolly on display in the Animal World gallery at the National Museum Of Scotland or find out more here: https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/natural-sciences/dolly-the-sheep/

Museum reference Z.2003.40

Collection Mammals

Scientific name(s) species: Ovis aries Linnaeus, 1758 - Sheep

Specimen details Specimen form: Mounted skin and skeleton; Sex: Female; Phase: Adult

Associations University of Edinburgh, The Roslin Institute and R(D)SVS

Model produced by Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark.