Welcome brave new world: scientists create freakish man-made monster ants with huge heads and jaws

Daily Mail ^ | 9:13 PM on 5th January 2012
 | Rob Waugh

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[dfwgator]

"...And I for one, welcome our new insect overlords."

[muir_redwoods]

I wonder if this could have applications in urology

Just sayin...

[KoRn]

I just don’t know what to say.

Just wait until they screw it up and create ants that are the size of school buses, which will quickly multiply and invade cities and towns across the country, leaving no one alive!

One thing is for sure.... We shouldn’t be ‘going there’.....

[tanuki]

I can just see the email pitches now....

[Old Sarge]

[ClearCase_guy]

Didn't the Nazis already do something like this?

[NativeSon]

Looks like they've created ants with huge brains.

We're Dooooomed!

[Little Pig]

The headline for this is seriously misleading. These ants are *not* manmade. They have the potential to become this way naturally. The scientists merely applied the appropriate hormone trigger to get them to express this form.

[Ken H]

Fools! We have learned nothing - NOTHING - from ‘Them’.

[ColdOne]

I wonder if they have and uncles?.......yeah I had to do it.

[mylife]

LOL!!!! ☺

[cricket]

Morally impaired scientists - or the 'mad scientist' are as much of a threat to our world as any terrorist. Are they bored? Who is paying for the invitation to life per 'freakish insects' et al? o

Beyond constraints of Bible; think "Grim Fairy Tales" should be required reading for all school children - and 'wannabe scientists'. 'Frankenstein' as well.

Doctor's take Hippocratic Oath; what do scientists promise to honor?

[Jonty30]

Fortunately, insects wouldn’t be able to move if they grew much larger than they do.

That’s a good think.

[puppypusher]

These People need to be held responsible for doing these Experiments that put all of Civilization at risk.

Why,Oh why are they always trying to play god.I would hate to see some of these SOB’s escape a laboratory and setup colonies in the wild.

[rex regnum insanit]

NO, NO, NO, NO,NO, NO, NO!
BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD,!

[Lees Swrd]

Love that movie we own it now. Free to watch or download Public Domain.

Them! (1954)
The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.

http://www.archive.org/details/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Them1954176

[KarlInOhio]

At Whole Foods our farm raised ants are all natural and not enhanced with hormones.

[rintense]

No good can come of this.