Professor Quoted In Story About Unusual Chinese Lamb

UMaine Professor Irv Kornfield was interviewed for a story on AOL News about a lamb, born on a farm in China, that happens to resemble a dog. The birth has given rise to rumors that the lamb is the result of the mating of a sheep and dog. Kornfield, who is also the director of the Molecular Forensic Laboratory, told AOL the chances of a sheep giving birth to a puppy were impossible because dogs and sheep have been isolated genetically for so long that they differ greatly in their chromosome numbers.