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Forget Mammoths – These Scientists Are Working To Resurrect the Extinct Christmas Island Rat Through DNA Editing
Sci Tech Daily ^ | MARCH 10, 2022

Posted on 03/10/2022 1:03:53 PM PST by BenLurkin

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21 posted on 03/10/2022 2:57:34 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

Keep it away from the monkeys! The result will be...

The vicious Sumatran Rat-Monkey!


22 posted on 03/10/2022 3:34:53 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (No dog in the Unraine war, but we still root for the underdog.)
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Funny-looking rat. Short skull, small rounded ears, chubby bod. No photos I could find, just art depictions. Was officially noted extinct in 1908 -
 
 
 

23 posted on 03/10/2022 3:40:37 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Noumenon

We don’t want to “resurrect” them; we want to “exterminate” them.


24 posted on 03/10/2022 3:58:13 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

I have fond memories of plinking rats at the city landfill with a .22. That 2as decades ago when you could still do that.


25 posted on 03/10/2022 4:04:42 PM PST by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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I used to do that, too, in the late 50s, here in south central PA, when the police would wave as they drove by.


26 posted on 03/10/2022 4:37:21 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Sparticus

Rats of NIMH.🙄


27 posted on 03/10/2022 8:19:42 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Red Badger

Didn’t read whole article. The excerpt alone reads like a prologue to an old ‘50s b/w sci-fi horror movie.


28 posted on 03/11/2022 1:19:11 AM PST by octex
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