The world’s first cloned horse, created by Italian scientists from a mare’s skin cell, has been born, according to a Washington Post article.

The birth of the healthy foal, announced in the Aug. 7 issue of the journal Nature, brings to nine the number of mammalian species that scientists have cloned from adult cells, along with sheep, mice, rabbits, goats, cats, pigs, cattle, and mules.

Born at a research facility on the outskirts of Cremona, the foal is unlike other clones. She was gestated in the same female that donated the skin cell from which the clone was grown. So in birthing the clone, the mare really gave birth to her identical twin sister.

“Basically, she foaled herself,” lead researcher Cesare Galli, DVM, of the Laboratory of Reproductive Technology told the Washington Post