The 15ft tall 8,000 pound mouse was last seen rampaging in the downtown area. OK that's what I wanted the article to say.
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2025
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But no little tiny tusks? No trunk? Lame. Is it so wrong to want a tiny mammoth I can hold in one hand?
Real talk? Yes. Miniaturization of animals does not do good things for their health, in general. The systems of animal bodies are finely tuned by natural selection, and mucking with that is how you get dogs that can't breathe because their nose has been bred into the approximate shape of a squished aluminum can. Homeostasis is easy to throw off long-term when you play around with the square-cube law.
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allometry#Physiological_scaling
You want a tiny mammoth, I want an aquarium sized whale... Where's the line? How long until there's a game show of duck sized horses or horse sized duck?
but the main ingredient remains the same: a mammoth.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SPENT EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS MAKING TRANSGENDER MICE!
Can I be nit-picky here for a second?
If you're genetically modifying an elephant for cold tolerance and fur growth, you're not "bring a mammoth back from extinction", you're creating a furry elephant. It may look somewhat like a mammoth, but genetically it's not a mammoth at all.
It's like saying you can genetically modify a homo-sapien to have a pronounced brow ridge and a hairier back and say that you've brought the neandertal back from extinction. No you haven't, you've just designed a human who looks different.
Well, the goal isn't to just create woolly mammoth-lile creatures by copying characteristics. The goal is to recreate the genome from what genome data we have into a living creature.
It's not like they are trying to create a sweded version, but take a creature that is already close and change the genes to match.
At least, that's how I understood it based on the article.
And next you’ll say that genetically-modified ears aren’t enough to make catgirls real either 😩
Can we let this one go? Not for science, not for accuracy, but for the prospect of having catgirls in our lifetimes, at least?
Give me the genetherapy that makes me an anthropomorphic dog.
I wonder if the Lemmy liberals are going to call you a transphobic troll for this comment
Are the Lemmy liberals in the room with us right now
No, you're right, I was being paranoid. Everyone on Lemmy accepts otherkin, xenogenders, and neopronouns.
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Everything weird about this aside... Those mice are fucking adorable.
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Kind of a dick move to bring an animal from the Ice Age, back to experience global warming.
Global warming 2 extinction boogaloo
mouse sized woolly mammoth would be pretty fucking cool.
imagine the sound when he toots his little trunk.
could store him in the fridge.
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This was wise. They had to create the woolly mice so that when they create the woolly mammoths, they can woolly control them.
They do look extremely cute though.
Is this how we get tribbles?
new Pokémon just dropped?
I am skeptical of all articles with "scientists" in the title... but those mice are really cute. 😙
Oh my god I want one so bad
How many butts do the mice have?
This means they’re gonna make wooly elephants and try to make us call them woolly mammoths.
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