Couple Pays $155k for First Cloned Pet in US

The world's first commercially cloned pet just arrived in the United States. A couple in Miami, Florida got a new dog - just like their old dog, literally. Not only was the dog the same breed and gender but the dog also has the same DNA as their old dog.

Nina and Edgar Otto picked up their new dog from the Miami International Airport on Monday night, a cute cloned yellow lab puppy. Lancelot Encore, was cloned from the DNA of the late dog Lancelot, which died of caner in January of 2008. The couple had the DNA of their dog frozen five years ago, knowing that cloning would be possible soon.

They ended up paying $155,000 in a San Francisco biotech firm's dog-cloning auction last July. BioArts International created Lancelot Encore in South Korea, where he was born 10 weeks ago. The Ottos say he's the first single-birth, commercially cloned puppy in the United States.