Biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences unveiled images and footage of "woolly mice" on Tuesday (March 4), with fur similar to the thick hair that kept woolly mammoths warm during the last ice age.
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77 sats \ 6 replies \ @OneOneSeven 6 Mar
Ha, woolly mice!
Seems like a lot of hair for a mouse, I wonder if they overheat easily.
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29 sats \ 5 replies \ @zuspotirko 6 Mar
I mean they're cut but has anyone asked the mice how they feel? They're entire existence is a manifest of humankinds hybris.
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 6 Mar
Many, many such cases.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 6 Mar
Do you think that mouse would rather not be alive?
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30 sats \ 2 replies \ @zuspotirko 6 Mar
Idk but that's the question, isn't it
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 6 Mar
Yep, but the question isn't how happy that mouse is compared to other mice.
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23 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 6 Mar
Yeah, fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your perspective), research rodents get better care than a non-insignificant number of humans.
Large animal research is another story though, imo.
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68 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 6 Mar
YES! I will buy one and train him to stomp on politicians.
Until then... I am preparing my bear buddy.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 6 Mar
I would keep him in my backyard with the raccoons.
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 6 Mar
yep, they will make a good pair for your protection.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 6 Mar
Bears might be more trainable anyway. Work with what you've got.
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72 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 6 Mar
Maybe we can raise them as cattle?
Just imagine how much meat you could get from just one mammoth!
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72 sats \ 0 replies \ @tttooocccooolll 6 Mar
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 6 Mar
yes, what could possibly go wrong
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 6 Mar
Woolly mice, someday humans might find you… delicious. Bitter truth!
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @kurszusz 6 Mar
A lot of money spent for unnecessary and useless research. At least me have it doesn't make sense.
That amount of money could be transferred into other (better) things
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 6 Mar
I'm all for it.
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @jgbtc 6 Mar
No. The might be really annoying and then we won't be able to kill them off because they'll be this great scientific achievement and endangered.
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 6 Mar
If it fits my macros ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 6 Mar
Fuc* no! We must think we're gods! We can't protect those who are here and we want to bring extinct animals back to life. That's sick!
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 6 Mar
So ironically enough with the data we have they could be pretty big players in helping protect permafrost. While they wouldn’t reverse climate change they are believed to be able to help with the warming of that area. With permafrost melting the emissions from those areas are WILD and much much worse than people understand. We are talking massive amounts of methane!
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