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Man, 81, sentenced to 6 months in prison for trying to create giant hybrid species of wild sheep (screenshot-media.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is actually kind of hilarious. He could basically be a character in the MaddAddam trilogy...

But what's particularly interesting is what he pulled off without the means that a giant pharma company could do. Like, if someone with those resources tackled this, maybe we really could have Jurassic Park

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

We've already got goats with spider silk proteins in their milk.