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this company is so frustratingly misleading. They did not bring back the direwolf (Aenocyon dirus). They modified a modern grey wolf (Canis lupus) into having some direwolf morphology. There has been no de-extinction. This is pure hype slop. As a friend said "these are dire wolves the same way La Croix is a fruit".
I still think this tech has the potential to be helpful in a conservation context.... but it says a A LOT that these "dire wolves" look far more like something you'd see in Game of Thrones than any of the most likely reconstructions proposed by scientists who've studied the fossil record.
These pups might get more robust as they age, but right now I'm not seeing anything to get excited about. I just can't help but suspect that this species was chosen specifically bc the public already has the idea of "dire wolf = gray wolf + big", and that this company is using relatively minor CRISPR editing to give the false impression that they're recreating anything that might have conceivably lived 10,000 years ago.
Again, I think this tech is interesting and merits further development (and if jurassic park is the only way they can do that, then, I guess that's what's happening), but it's still extremely misleading to parade these animals around like they've actually 100% cloned a dire wolf.
Really reminds me of Jurassic Park. In the books, Crichton made it very clear that they didn't actually clone dinosaurs. They just combined DNA to make an animal that looked like what people EXPECT a dinosaur to look like, because it turned out that actual cloned dinosaurs were really quite dull and spent most of their time hiding.
Reblogged dimetrodone
Gonna bring back these bust commissions if anyone is interested! They're 40 USD (50 if they have complicated clothes or details - if you're unsure just ask!). I'm open to any characters, not just dragons, though I'd like to stick to animals rather than humans/machines/etc.
Contact: Holly.o.lucero@gmail.com
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by Tom Brown from Kanahau - Utila Research and Conservation Facility
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New edition of VATTU from IRON CIRCUS COMICS out SEPTEMBER
Reblogged shortlifelongart
queer stories matter i'm gay and i saw a bird today
Reblogged shortlifelongart
Hey remember when people on this site were absolutely insane about asexuals saying they’re a Trojan horse to sneak in homophobic straight people into the lgbt community or whatever and now JKR is making the same lazy edgelord jokes about asexual people
big day for trans people on ace spectrum (me)
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It's called hard sci-fi because it's not as easy
I thought it'd be fun if I made aliens that respirate CO² into O² like plants but I started thinking about how I'm not actually sure how exactly those chemical processes work and now I'm on the wikipedia page for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
I feel like the media literacy ogre for biochemistry
Reblogged dimetrodone
It's done! My giant Duncton Wood family tree! This is as accurate to the text as I could make it, hopefully I didn't miss anyone.
Some notes:
- It's not confirmed that the female from the Five Clouds system had Lucerne's pups, but she does have descendants, so I decided to toss some hypothetical Lucerne babies up on the tree. Schrodinger's pups...
- Feverfew is described as a white mole on the Duncton Wood wiki, but I was unable to find anything in the text matching that, so she's gray here.
- Tryfan and Feverfew might have had more than one pup, but only one actually makes it to an on-page appearance (the rest are... eaten?), and then the poor little guy dies before we get a name or gender. I drew them mostly because I felt bad, haha.
- Quince doesn't have a canonical fur color, so I decided to make her blonde, like a quince fruit! Please. I drew 50 moles. I may draw 50 more. I wanted to have a little fun-
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Reblogged charseraph
smile pups
Reblogged shortlifelongart
Torture to be a fan of any exotic animal when it's like. 90% of the footage of them is gonna be from dodo videos of people illegally keeping them as housepets . Really wish I could enjoy this video of a lynx but I also kinda wish everyone involved would die
the always relevant
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my favorite junji ito panel
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Harris Rosenblum Relic of the Corrupted Blood 2022
Soy based resin, cosmetic prosthetic, latex, french green cosmetic clay, aerosol hairspray, water gilding media (individual serving dehydrated bone broth, french green cosmetic clay, cosmetic kaolin, rabbit skin glue granules, terracotta clay), SD cards (contains archive of World ofWarcraft patch 1.7.0 (corrupted blood plague), 1.7.1 (plague fix) and interstitial script), USG drywall filler, automotive filler primer, wax.
communisthatsunemiku
this guy RULEs
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