Science, technically is the study of nature and behavior, of
natural things and the knowledge that we obtain about them,
at least according to collinsdictionary.com.
But there's also a such thing as evil science, like
when people take two different living things and try to
combine them into one.
Today we're discussing 10 scary animals created by humans.
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Ear mouse.
It almost sounds kind of ridiculous to say out loud,
I know, but the ear mouse was, at one point,
a real thing.
Unfortunately, back in 1997, this image made its rounds, displaying
a hairless mouse with a human ear attached to its
back.
Of course, many wondered what in the world was going
on, and you may be surprised to learn that no,
this is not photoshopped.
A couple of surgeons from Harvard named Joseph and Charles
Vacanti, a pair of brothers, were experimenting with figuring out
ways to develop body parts inside of a laboratory.
One of their theories, the one that you can see
of this image, was to implant a man made living
ear into a living host.
To do that, they fashioned the mold of a human
ear and injected it with cartilage cells.
The mold would then sit in an incubator and the
materials used to form the shape were biocompatible and bioabsorbable.
So after the molded ear was implanted onto a living
host, the mold itself would simply disappear over time.
But still implanting it into the back of a living
rat?
Pretty crude science, no?
Rabbit man.
Just when you thought that the unrefined science of animal
experimentations had gone too far, we've got another example of
human beings playing God.
In 2003, Chinese scientists utilized the DNA from both rabbits
and humans to create a crossbred human animal embryo.
They weren't attempting to grow a full creature from the
experiment, however, at least not as far as we know.
They only allowed the creature to develop for a few
short days inside of a Petri dish, then destroyed it
and harvested it for stem cells.
Bioengineered piggy.
1 worldly problem that you probably aren't aware of is
the scientific fact that pigs poop a different kind of
poop.
Well, maybe you did know that, but what I mean
is that pigs can't digest phytate, which is a phosphorus
heavy molecule found in grains.
But pigs, like every other animal on Earth, need phosphorus
to make DNA, so farmers fortify the pigs feed with
a pure version of the molecule.
Almost all of the phosphorus consumed by the pigs is
excreted through their feces, which ultimately ends up in the
oceans where they feed bacteria and thus create pockets in
the water where oxygen is essentially depleted.
Needless to say, all of that is terrible for the
environment.
So scientists managed to engineer the enviro pig, which is
able to digest phytate on its own.
The genetically modified pigs had the salivary glands tweaked, enabling
them to be able to secrete phytate.
The result is a 40% decrease in the bad stuff
finding its way into the excretion of the ocean.
Killing poop zombie dogs.
Anyone out there ever played Resident Evil, the video game
slash movie franchise that started all the way back in
1996 that has the main characters blasting their way through
zombies, zombie humans, and zombie dogs?
Well, who the thunk that human beings have actually crafted
up some of these undead animals in real life?
In the 1940s, a group of scientists in the Soviet
Union decided that it'd be a good idea to completely
sever a dog's head from its body, hook the head
up to some sort of machine based life support system,
and then see if the animal would come back to
life.
In this case, at least once the dog's head was
responsive.
They even claimed that it even tried to lick its
own nose.
Some of this stuff just sounds utterly insane, but I
guess people have been insane on this planet for a
long, long time.
Featherless chicken.
I bet that you've never thought twice about the skinless
chicken breast that you've purchased at your local grocery store
over a million times.
As consumers, we aren't trained to care about how our
product got from point A of being somewhere out in
the wild or in some factory, to point B where
it's neatly wrapped and tucked away at a store just
waiting on you to come pick it up.
But if you've ever looked into what it takes to
keep up a say, a chicken coop or maybe even
a mass poultry farm, you might be surprised.
And you know one thing that's extremely time consuming for
those who mass farm poultry?
Removing the feathers off of the chickens.
Which is why a natural bare neck chicken was cross
bred with a regular broiler chicken to create the voila
featherless chicken.
Doesn't that look tasty?
Bona petite Liger.
So this next 1 isn't too complicated.
If you take a male lion and cross it with
a female tiger or tigress, what you get is this
Husky fellow a Liger.
Now these animals solely exist in captivity as tigers and
lions don't typically cross paths out in the wild, at
least not today.
There are stories that long ago the Asiatic lion used
to cross territories with tigers, and history says that ligers
did used to exist naturally.
These are the largest of all large cats, as Liger
Cubs will usually outgrow both of its parents.
Growler bear Up next, we've got a rare bear that
not many people have heard of before, and they come
to bout when you crossbreed a grizzly and a polar
bear, and they're aptly called growler bears.
Seriously, that's the best they could come up with.
These animals are more common in captivity, but have definitely
taken place out in the wild as well.
In 2006, a hunter up in Canada shot and killed
a bear that he believed looked especially unusual.
Upon further investigation, including an analyzation of the bear's DNA,
it was determined that this was in fact a cross
between the polar and the grizzly bear.
And I must say that if a white polar bear
and a brown grizzly bear can get along well enough
out in the wild, then, hey, I'd say that there's
some hope for the rest of us in humanity.
At least I'd like to think mule.
Here's one that you may not have even known was
a cross bred, man made animal, the mule.
These creatures are the product of combining a male donkey
and a female horse.
Officials claim that mules are known to be a bit
more patient, sure footed and long living than horses and
are considered a faster and smarter version of the donkey.
One sad fact about the mule though, is that all
male mules and most females are infertile, which definitely sucks
for them.
Human chimp.
We'll get back into the weird world of human animal
hybrids with this.
Next one is back in 1967 again.
Over in China, a pair of scientists created the first
human animal hybrid ever.
Well, almost anyway.
The story goes that a pair of scientists from Chen
Yang claims to have successfully impregnated a female chimp with
human sperm.
According to the records, their intent was to create a
new, much more highly evolved species of chimp, Man Z1,
that had a larger brain.
They wanted these new chimps to have the ability to
speak.
Why they thought that was a good idea is beyond
me, but that's what their hopes were.
This human Z ultimately would have been enslaved by its
creators.
Reports say that they wanted it to push carts, herd
sheep, and even be sent off to conduct experiments in
space.
The created creature never saw the light of day.
A group of revolutionaries called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
stormed the facility and smashed all the equipment.
The chip host passed away during the raid.
Later, the scientists claimed that the chimp was three months
pregnant with the embryo.
There's also another case that took place in the 1920s
in the United States, but like the one out in
China, it's mostly just cast off as a rumor.
But do you think it's actually possible that humans have
been trying to create this strange and unnecessary animal for
roughly the last 100 years?
Smart plants.
So our final number of the day isn't an animal,
but it is a living thing that was created by
humans.
Nowadays we've got smart everything.
Smartphones, smart TV's, smart homes.
But what about smart plants?
Yeah, those are a real thing, and they were created
by a company called Oresa Biodetection.
They modified a common weed called Thalcrest with a very
important adaption.
The flower, which is normally all green, would grow bright
red whenever bond constructing components were detected.
More specifically, the plant would react to nitrogen dioxide, a
very common ingredient in explosives.
Seeds of the flower would be sprinkled over suspected areas.
Then, if an underground explosive was detected through the color
of the weed, the mind could be removed more carefully
or just totally avoided.
That was 10 scary animals created by humans.
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