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Resurrection Ecology Gives Life to Old Eggs

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the better-late-than-never dept.

Ant writes "ABC News reports that scientists are bringing the past to life by hatching eggs once thought to be dead and producing colonies of animals as they existed decades ago. They are calling it 'resurrection ecology,' and it's a whole new field that quite literally allows scientists to observe evolution as it occurred, using animals that were quite different than their kinfolk today."

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  1. Side effects may vary. by suso · · Score: 5, Funny

    Resurrection Ecology Gives Life to Old Eggs

    Maybe this will put an end to those viagra emails I keep getting too. ;-)

  2. Finally! by aendeuryu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can this possibly be used as an argument for evolution?

    1. Re:Finally! by HumanTorch · · Score: 3, Funny

      Can this possibly be used as an argument for evolution?

      Not until zooplankton evolve into seamonkeys it won't.

    2. Re:Finally! by Jeremi · · Score: 5, Funny
      If it can't swim against the current (on a macroscopic level), and it isn't a plant, it's zooplankton


      Hmm... by that definition, Stephen Hawking is a zooplankton.... so I think the definition is a bit broad....

      --


      I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
  3. Evolution? by psychgeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    How does this demonstrate evolution? Don't they know the eggs were planted there just to fool them???

  4. Re:I can't believe this wasn't mentioned by F13 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is a Unix system. I know this.

  5. Eggstinct eggcology by Bifurcati · · Score: 4, Funny
    Not that I want to egg them on, but this is an eggstremely interesting eggsample of geneggic research. It eggstends the life of these species, so they can eggsist longer, before they eggsit this life. I hope they eggsplore the eggconomical option for less eggspensive procedures, and eggsceed their eggspectations.

    Most eggcellent!

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    Physicist, consultant, science communicator
  6. Wohooo!!!! by Tree131 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's hear it for the Dodo Bird!!!
    Those things must have been tasty if they went so extinct.

    Maybe I'll get to taste one in my lifetime...

  7. Re:This would have never happened by EvilCabbage · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why, was he trying to hatch them himself?

  8. In related news... by xstonedogx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot poster brings back memes thought to be dead and produces jokes as they existed decades ago. He calls it "resurrection karma".

    Unfortunately, no good can come of it, as those memes are the same ones we have today.