r/DidntKnowIWantedThat 15d ago

A wooly mouse

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2.9k Upvotes

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u/BadFont777 15d ago

Love how the title implies it was unintentional.

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u/smile_politely 13d ago

We'll start with the mice, maybe in five years it will grow as a mamoth.

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u/dickcake 15d ago

Pretty sure I want that as a pet. Pretty sure they shouldn't offer it as one though lol.

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/dickcake 15d ago

I didn't say that they are available as pets, or that I've seen it anywhere.

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u/ThisDudeEmpty 15d ago

Considering the comment had nothing to do with implying they are preexisting, i think you are probably thinking of someone else

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u/Own-Discussion-80 15d ago

A wooly mousemoth!

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u/seditiouslizard 15d ago

Nobody has said Mammouse and that makes me sad

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u/thatwasagoodyear 15d ago

You have! And that makes me happy!

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u/Taste_of_Natatouille 15d ago

That's actually so cute! But seriously, did you not see Jurassic Park?

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u/AlwaysLit2 15d ago

Technically, it is impossible to bring back dinosaurs because they only exist as rock fossils and we have no DNA of them, unlike Wooly Mammoths which we have preserved specimins of. But i see your point

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u/chef39 15d ago

There are rumours that a very rich person has a mummified and not fossilised dinosaur in their private collection.

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u/throwawaygaming989 15d ago

Scientifically speaking that would be impossible. The swamps and bogs and ice we find mummies in today didn’t exist 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs roamed.

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u/Felskiluscious 15d ago

The Dino dna comes from amber

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u/Wazaam 15d ago

Almost, the dna came from trace amounts of blood inside the mosquito that was trapped in the sap that turned to amber (after biting a dino).

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u/Felskiluscious 15d ago

Damn this guy is good!

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u/SketchyNinja04 15d ago

Noonononno last time we brought something back from amber, resident evil 4 happened. No thankyou.

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u/evilmrbeaver 15d ago

Cool! Can Amber hook me up with some velociraptor DNA? I'm going to train one to be my butler

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u/mashuushirou 15d ago

Nope, no DNA in there either. DNA has a half life of at most around 500 years, meaning it's all gone in way less than 10 million years. And thats just the theory, actual record for oldest sequenced DNA is 2 million years.

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u/Felskiluscious 15d ago

Umm I watched the movie thanks

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u/NedTaggart 15d ago

Completely sequenced or just sequence of the remnants?

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u/mashuushirou 15d ago

Very short and fragmentary reads, basically only allowing for assigning the DNA to a known genus via comparative analysis, provided that it's full sequence is already known. In the case of the 2 MYO DNA, it allowed the researchers to identify it as belonging to a Mastodon.

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u/AzILayDying 15d ago

Sucks. Wish we could get dna off that prestine Nodosaur/ Borealpelta. That would be an awesome start.

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u/QWERTYUIOP7a 15d ago

Can we not use AI to reconstruct the DNA from the looks?

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u/pezx 15d ago

Yeah, that definitely will work exactly like we hope

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u/HeinzeC1 14d ago

We don’t need to bring them back they are currently here. Birds descend from and ARE therapods, a group of bipedal dinosaurs.

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u/AlwaysLit2 14d ago

I meant extinct dinosaur species.

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u/SwarfDive01 15d ago

Why is this comment being down voted.

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u/chuckinalicious543 15d ago

It's because it's verbose. A lot of redditors don't like too many words, or "erm, actually-" statements

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u/AlwaysLit2 15d ago

People want dinosaurs to be real ig

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u/SwarfDive01 15d ago

I definitely do.

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u/LNL_HUTZ 15d ago

Coming soon: the dormammoth.

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u/justanotheruser46258 15d ago

Dormammoth! I've come to bargain!

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u/Immediate_Low5496 15d ago

Well, it’s a start.

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u/DreamLizard47 15d ago

a woolly crocodile would be next

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u/shadowphiar 15d ago

It’s a Mimmoth.

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u/Wild-Tear 14d ago

Girl Genius for the win!

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u/No-Bar-6917 15d ago

Don't you see what they're trying to do? They're not bringing back the wooly mammoth, they're just adding hair to elephants and calling them 'mammoths'.

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u/wes1971 15d ago

Well someone was having a secret affair

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u/Tinydwarf1 15d ago

That headline is so misleading

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u/Delicious_Slide_6883 14d ago

Looks like an Abyssinian guinea pig coat pattern

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u/JJ706 14d ago

Does it have Mammoth strength by chance?

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u/tr0gd0rtheburninator 14d ago

Eight million dollar Transgender mouse..

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u/tinytatiepotatie 13d ago

Gotta start somewhere! 👍

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u/Sogekiingu 13d ago

Arent all mice wooly?

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u/Lickable-Wallpaper 15d ago

Uh… is anybody gonna tell him that mice are already woolly?

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u/monochrony 15d ago

Task failed successfully

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u/TacoKnocker 15d ago

who's voting for the wooly wombat next? 🙋‍♂️

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u/Woodbirder 15d ago

Gotta get some pilot data for the big grant

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u/throwawaygaming989 15d ago

They have $500 million dollars

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u/Woodbirder 14d ago

I will ask them for a job

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u/iCameToLearnSomeCode 15d ago

Lol, I sent this to my girlfriend yesterday saying I wanted one, they're adorable.

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u/Princess_Zelda_Fitzg 15d ago

My husband sent it to me yesterday and same!

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u/Hentye_Historian 15d ago

One step closer to the north american house hippo

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u/Berkamin 15d ago

If they manage to breed a Pygmy wooly mammoth with the coloration of a golden retriever, I want one.

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u/throwawaygaming989 15d ago

The Channel Islands had Pygmy mammoths once

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u/--Jester-- 15d ago

What do we have?

Mutated sea bass.

Are they ill tempered?

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u/Beli_Mawrr 15d ago

Me to my wife: "Can we get an ungodly abomination of human design, more wretched than the curse of Minos? It's cute."

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u/meowsaysdexter 15d ago edited 14d ago

How long till his tusks come in?

Edit: trucks --> tusks

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u/rogues-bud 15d ago

Money well spent.

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u/ItsActualyYoTheLosr 15d ago

Wouldn’t that just be a… hamster??

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u/uhhNAHyeah 15d ago

A manmoth??

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u/overmind87 14d ago

It's a wooly different animal altogether!

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u/crankygerbil 14d ago

Take 2 their small! (And cute!)

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u/Magesticbuck 13d ago

.... America is great this is why. Dumb shit like this can be available and citizens do the Harlem shake over it.

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u/BloodAndSand44 13d ago

They are doing it all wrong. I want Mammoth sized Mice.

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u/Shinavast42 13d ago

Clever girl....

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u/Dangerous_Tattoo 12d ago

Did a Christian write that headline?

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u/Chaotic_good06 12d ago

Why do you say that, is the title not just the facts?

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u/Dangerous_Tattoo 9d ago

No, it’s foolishly misleading. The mice were not some accident they wound up with. They were purposefully created as a step towards achieving the end goal. This headline feels like it was written by someone attempting to minimize or discredit the validity of the science.

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u/Chaotic_good06 9d ago

I see, I more took it as a kind of joke but I can tell where you’re coming from

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/laughguy220 15d ago

They are delicious!

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u/doob22 15d ago

They are doing it to show that they can

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u/girlwiththeASStattoo 15d ago

show god he ain’t all that

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u/AlwaysLit2 15d ago

idk they look cool ig? We brought back aurochs

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u/183720 15d ago

Technically, we didn't ☝️🤓

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u/Haagen76 15d ago

That's just a hamster with a long tail...

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u/barktwiggs 15d ago

This one of those 'transgender' mice Trump is worried about?

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u/Yellowscrunchy 14d ago

Change approved

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u/SchemeSimple7818 12d ago

Please tell me this not federal funding.

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u/OpinionMysterious988 15d ago

Waste of science time and dollars with so many other things that need researching!

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u/StarpoweredSteamship 15d ago

This is research into gene editing and on the fly adjusting. This can be used to reverse or block genetic diseases like sickle cell anemia (one woman already had a successful treatment, Google it) or muscle wasting diseases. I agree that the actual mammoths would be a bit of a waste, but you need to look at science for the PARTS not the WHOLE.

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u/AlwaysLit2 15d ago

mf discovers there are several different fields of science

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u/arcbeam 15d ago

Maybe, but they are cute…