Everything weird about this aside... Those mice are fucking adorable.
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2025
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Agreed 100%. I know they arent for sale, but I kinda want to look into them as pets
This was wise. They had to create the woolly mice so that when they create the woolly mammoths, they can woolly control them.
But no little tiny tusks? No trunk? Lame. Is it so wrong to want a tiny mammoth I can hold in one hand?
Real talk? Yes. Miniaturization of animals does not do good things for their health, in general. The systems of animal bodies are finely tuned by natural selection, and mucking with that is how you get dogs that can't breathe because their nose has been bred into the approximate shape of a squished aluminum can. Homeostasis is easy to throw off long-term when you play around with the square-cube law.
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allometry#Physiological_scaling
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The 15ft tall 8,000 pound mouse was last seen rampaging in the downtown area. OK that's what I wanted the article to say.
Oh my god I want one so bad
I am skeptical of all articles with "scientists" in the title... but those mice are really cute. 😙
This means they’re gonna make wooly elephants and try to make us call them woolly mammoths.
We spared no expense!
Why? How about focusing on preventing more extinctions instead of some Jurassic Park bullshit.
We already know how to prevent more extinctions. Better environmental laws, more green spaces, better conservation efforts, less suburban sprawl, etc. You know, things that will never happen.
IIRC, the primary reason we're even going with this route is that one of the primary things stabilizing the arctic permafrost was actually the presence of snow-wading megafauna changing the rate of heat dissipation in high-wind tundras. So, they're trying to bring the wooly mammoth back to try to keep more permafrost around.
ETA: Here's the company actually saying this is the primary reason for doing it. Its about restoring the biodiversity loss from humans being an all-around virus for the last 10000 years.
We have to experiment with mice before achieving the ultimate goal of laser shooting sharks.
gotta start somewhere
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