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Scientists accidentally create 'impossible' hybrid fish They call it the sturddlefish. [SLLiveScience, short-ish read]
They only have about a hundred of them, and they assume they can't reproduce....
Oh lordy, this is going to happen, isn't it?
posted by hippybear at 8:50 PM on July 20, 2020 [6 favorites]
Oh lordy, this is going to happen, isn't it?
posted by hippybear at 8:50 PM on July 20, 2020 [6 favorites]
Teach a man to create a new fish and life, uh, finds a way.
posted by Songdog at 8:56 PM on July 20, 2020 [9 favorites]
posted by Songdog at 8:56 PM on July 20, 2020 [9 favorites]
The photo of the Struddlefish in the NYT version of the story is umm...interesting.
posted by inflatablekiwi at 9:00 PM on July 20, 2020 [7 favorites]
posted by inflatablekiwi at 9:00 PM on July 20, 2020 [7 favorites]
The struddle is real.
posted by pykrete jungle at 9:37 PM on July 20, 2020 [20 favorites]
posted by pykrete jungle at 9:37 PM on July 20, 2020 [20 favorites]
Does anyone else have "kaiju" on their 2020 bingo card?
posted by loquacious at 10:14 PM on July 20, 2020 [11 favorites]
posted by loquacious at 10:14 PM on July 20, 2020 [11 favorites]
Take a short moment. It's a fish that is fish flavored, but also tastes of a strudel.
DO YOU REALLY WANT THAT?
posted by hippybear at 10:31 PM on July 20, 2020 [2 favorites]
DO YOU REALLY WANT THAT?
posted by hippybear at 10:31 PM on July 20, 2020 [2 favorites]
But what about the possibility of strudel filled with caviar? I'm willing to risk it.
posted by nestor_makhno at 10:52 PM on July 20, 2020 [8 favorites]
posted by nestor_makhno at 10:52 PM on July 20, 2020 [8 favorites]
a fish that is fish flavored, but also tastes of a strudel
Piroshki! I can dill with it.
posted by clew at 11:51 PM on July 20, 2020 [13 favorites]
Piroshki! I can dill with it.
posted by clew at 11:51 PM on July 20, 2020 [13 favorites]
The researchers were trying to breed Russian sturgeon in captivity through a process called gynogenesis, a type of asexual reproduction. In gynogenesis, a sperm triggers an egg's development but fails to fuse to the egg's nucleus. That means its DNA is not part of the resulting offspring, which develop solely from maternal DNA. The researchers were using American paddlefish sperm for the process...
See, we were tampering in God's domain, then there was an accident and Ia! Ia! life finds a way straight to Innsmouth.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 1:46 AM on July 21, 2020 [8 favorites]
See, we were tampering in God's domain, then there was an accident and Ia! Ia! life finds a way straight to Innsmouth.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 1:46 AM on July 21, 2020 [8 favorites]
The photo of the Struddlefish in the NYT version of the story is umm...interesting.
It’s main weapon, for attack and defense, is intense disapproval.
posted by GenjiandProust at 2:54 AM on July 21, 2020 [13 favorites]
It’s main weapon, for attack and defense, is intense disapproval.
posted by GenjiandProust at 2:54 AM on July 21, 2020 [13 favorites]
Ia! Ia! life finds a way straight to Innsmouth.
There's a possibility this life is delicious, though, in which case it's OK with me if it finds a way straight in my mouth.
posted by The Tensor at 3:19 AM on July 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
There's a possibility this life is delicious, though, in which case it's OK with me if it finds a way straight in my mouth.
posted by The Tensor at 3:19 AM on July 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
Uh—do they make caviar? That's the gaping question that the article, mysteriously, leaves unasked.
posted by newdaddy at 4:07 AM on July 21, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by newdaddy at 4:07 AM on July 21, 2020 [4 favorites]
See, we were tampering in God's domain, then there was an accident and Ia! Ia! life finds a way straight to Innsmouth.
You scientists were so busy tampering in god's domain that you didn't stop to think and ask which god!
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:08 AM on July 21, 2020 [21 favorites]
You scientists were so busy tampering in god's domain that you didn't stop to think and ask which god!
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:08 AM on July 21, 2020 [21 favorites]
I don't know why I started thinking about crossbred seahorses but I did and found this
Sfw
posted by Mr. Yuck at 6:35 AM on July 21, 2020
Sfw
posted by Mr. Yuck at 6:35 AM on July 21, 2020
The photo of the Struddlefish in the NYT version of the story is umm...interesting.
If ever a photo was meme-worthy, that is it! Theodore Geisel lives!
posted by notsnot at 8:17 AM on July 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
I have been thinking that my breakfast pastries could use more Omega 3.
posted by condour75 at 8:23 AM on July 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by condour75 at 8:23 AM on July 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
Sfw
I ... what the hell else did you find that you thought this wasn't assumed?
Never mind, I'm confident I'm happier not knowing.
posted by solotoro at 9:16 AM on July 21, 2020 [3 favorites]
I ... what the hell else did you find that you thought this wasn't assumed?
Never mind, I'm confident I'm happier not knowing.
posted by solotoro at 9:16 AM on July 21, 2020 [3 favorites]
This is real “God as a kid tries to make a chicken in his room” material, isn't it?
posted by scruss at 9:20 AM on July 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by scruss at 9:20 AM on July 21, 2020 [1 favorite]
Scientists accidentally create 'impossible' hybrid fish
That word you keep using, I don't think it means that you think it means.
posted by jabah at 10:24 AM on July 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
That word you keep using, I don't think it means that you think it means.
posted by jabah at 10:24 AM on July 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
To put this in perspective, the two fish species diverged right about when the first mammals appeared.
posted by sjswitzer at 12:03 PM on July 21, 2020 [6 favorites]
posted by sjswitzer at 12:03 PM on July 21, 2020 [6 favorites]
To these scientists insisting that these hybrids are sterile, I want to paraphrase Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic park.
Life .... uh --- finds a way
Also. NO.
posted by indianbadger1 at 12:29 PM on July 21, 2020
Life .... uh --- finds a way
Also. NO.
posted by indianbadger1 at 12:29 PM on July 21, 2020
Ia! Ia! life finds a way straight to Innsmouth.
Or at least Albany.
So would this be Albany Poreef?
Most hybrid species, such as the liger (a mix of a lion and a tiger) and the mule (a mix of a horse and donkey), can't have offspring of their own, and the sturddlefish is probably no exception. Mozsár and his colleagues plan to care for the fish, but they won't create more, since the hybrid could outcompete native sturgeon in the wild and worsen the sturgeon's chances of survival.
Definitely more exotic than splake.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 2:43 PM on July 21, 2020
Or at least Albany.
So would this be Albany Poreef?
Most hybrid species, such as the liger (a mix of a lion and a tiger) and the mule (a mix of a horse and donkey), can't have offspring of their own, and the sturddlefish is probably no exception. Mozsár and his colleagues plan to care for the fish, but they won't create more, since the hybrid could outcompete native sturgeon in the wild and worsen the sturgeon's chances of survival.
Definitely more exotic than splake.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 2:43 PM on July 21, 2020
Extra DNA May Make Unlikely Hybrid Fish Possible.
posted by misteraitch at 3:21 AM on August 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by misteraitch at 3:21 AM on August 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
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Don't worry, if the population gets out of hand we will just create hybrid sharks that eat the hybrid fish.
posted by Literaryhero at 8:49 PM on July 20, 2020 [6 favorites]