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Salmon Gives Birth To Trout.

Posted by timothy on from the paper-contains-facts dept.

mishmash writes "Researchers in Japan have created trout whose fathers were salmon, 'they implanted tissue from trout embryos into salmon embryos; and when the salmon became adults and mated, they produced trout.' Jurrassic Park just came a step closer. The story is also at Nature, where the scientists actually discuss using the technology for reviving extinct species."

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  1. Had to say it.... by macdaddy357 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...There's something fishy about this!

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  2. Good thing salmon die at spawning then by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 2, Funny
    or there would be a lot of explaining to do by the moms.

    Anyway wouldn't it be smarter the other way around? Last time I checked the menu salmon sells for a hell of lot less then trout.

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  3. Sounds like a Far Side comic. by Spudley · · Score: 2, Funny

    This sounds like something out of a Far Side comic. Gary Larson would have had a field day with this. I can picture it already...

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    (Spudley Strikes Again!)
  4. Ah, yes by 0x0d0a · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!"

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    May we never see th
  5. Oh man oh man by tachyonmkg · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait until they make pigs that give birth to bald eagles or humpback whales that shoot pandas out of their vaginas.