Very useful. Meanwhile elsewhere biodiversity is down the drain.
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notsosure@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 39 minutes ago
When I bring this up IRL, with examples of insect population changes, people’s jaws are on the floor. I don’t have to quote science papers, just, “Remember what it was like?”
I’ve seen the biodiversity crash on my front porch in just 5 years. I got frogs back in the hood, hoping there’s dragonfly larva maturing.
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 7 minutes ago
I used to see swarms of grasshoppers every summer as a kid (80s), now a single one is a rare sight.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
They’re essentially Godzilla squab, if they didn’t taste great deep fried I’d be shocked.
shalafi@lemmy.world 38 minutes ago
I heard they were terrible. Humans didn’t eat them, our pets did.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Clever girl … gets pecked in the shin
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
We spared no expense.
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
I’d want one as a pet
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 minutes ago
The main character of Jasper Fforde’s amazing [Thursday Next] (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thursday_Next) alternate history series does!
judgyweevil@feddit.it 1 hour ago
Is Colossal: A. A legit company with a strong scientific foundation B. A total fraud C. A company that does some real research but inflates their claims in order to get more funds?
yistdaj@pawb.social 2 minutes ago
Pretty sure it’s 3, they have a history of claiming to resurrect extinct species when they’re just modifying existing species to be a little more similar to the extinct one.
They claimed to bring back dire wolves but they’re more similar to grey wolves. They make the argument that the genes they used are what most makes a dire wolf a dire wolf, but it’s controversial.
I also remember hearing they said they would bring back a population of red wolves by extracting red wolf DNA that had been absorbed into a coyote population, but seemed to ignore the existing red wolves (which could do with extra genetic diversity) and worked using coyotes as a base.
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 20 minutes ago
A mix of 3 and 2.
They already made modified red wolves and called them dire wolves and named them after GoT.
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 28 minutes ago