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12-01-2015, 10:41 PM | #1 | |
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December 2nd, 2015: Hen's Teeth
My uncle used the expression, “rare as hen’s teeth”, which is damn rare… or it was.
Science say the chicken’s great, great, many more greats, grandmother, was a dinosaur called Archaeopteryx. ............ BBC says Bhart-Anjan Bhullar of Yale and Arhat Abzhanov of Harvard, figured out which genes make the beak. They then denied an embryo the proteins they need to build a beak. Shazam, the embryo skull tries to revert back to a previous beakless incarnation. ............. Quote:
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12-02-2015, 05:29 AM | #2 |
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Is it just me? Or the names of the 2 dudes just make me wonder where in hell money for research is going. To quote someone "damnifino."
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12-02-2015, 06:08 AM | #3 |
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You assume this is American money
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12-02-2015, 06:34 AM | #4 |
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Bhullar is Assistant Professor and Assistant Curator, Geology & Geophysics at Yale.
Abzhano is an Associate Professor at Harvard.
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12-02-2015, 07:34 AM | #5 |
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As far as tinkering with DNA goes to make these bizarre things, that genie is out of the bottle. Human don't have a very good track record of ignoring knowledge and leaving well enough alone. Even if major scientific bodies decide that this sort of stuff is unethical, somebody somewhere in the world is going to do it. My bet is on China. They think eating tiger penises will make you powerful. They will make a chicken with teeth in a heartbeat if they want to. They will make dinosaurs if they want to.
Hell, even the US federal government just ruled last month that it's cool to feed genetically modified salmon to people without telling them what it is they are eating. |
12-02-2015, 12:01 PM | #6 | |
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Um... it doesn't?
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Like this one for instance... Look at those walls, they could plunk a couple Dinos in there and that parking lot would be full up. What could go wrong?
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12-10-2015, 08:36 AM | #7 |
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A couple of years back, I found a few articles about a mutant rooster hatched on a family farm. Everything about him was chicken-normal except for one thing: he's BALD. Uglier than one of those bald cats (breed is called Sphynx or Canadian Sphynx)! Beak is normal, legs are normal, not even feather follicles in his skin. I'm wondering if the meat industry bought him yet--think of the money they'd save for executive bonuses if they didn't have to pluck chickens raised for food!
That said, the lack of feathers gave him an expression strongly reminiscent of a shoebill stork. The shoebill is one of those birds that makes me say "THAT is where dinosaurs went." http://artisanlane.com/wp/the-cartoo...king-shoebill/ DO NOT search "shoebill eating" unless you're prepared to see one eat a LIVE DUCK. Whole. "Cartoonish" my (unladylike word here). |
12-12-2015, 08:32 AM | #8 |
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What a cool looking creature!
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12-12-2015, 11:33 AM | #9 |
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Eating a tiger penis is notable only if it is still attached to a living tiger.
Or, a guy called Tiger. But, not for the same reason.
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