Woolly Mice Designed To Engineer Mammoth-Like Elephants

[naomi24]

//Genetically engineered woolly mice could one day help populate the Arctic with hairy, genetically modified elephants and help stop the planet warming.

Those are the startling claims being made by a US company that said on Tuesday it had created mice with "mammoth-like traits". Colossal Biosciences' eventual goal is to engineer mammoth-like creatures that could help stop arctic permafrost from melting.

Criticism has flooded in, including that engineering mammoth-like creatures is a big stretch from making mice hairier, as well as being unethical, and that the whole project is a publicity stunt.

But the company says it has been misjudged and that the mouse is an important tool on the path to restoring Earth's depleted nature.//

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jg4n776evo

 

If I didn't know better I'd swear it was 1 April.  Just no!

[sandyRoe]

What would these hairy elephants eat?  As far as I know there's not much vegetation up there in the Arctic.

[davebro3]

probly feed from the eskimos' bins like the polar bears do

[Old_Geezer]

On Eskimos.