>Dunno if this is true or walrus-shit. I searched hither & yon on the net,
>couldn't find any substantiation:
As stated, this has the wiff of decomposing crustaceans. If true, I
think a lot of critical details on "bits of genetic material" are
missing. There's lots of different ways to combine the "bits" and
different ways have different plausibilities.
>Forwarded from Sci.bio.ecology:
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>January 25th
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>An AP story today reported two scientists at the Charleston
>Oceanographic Institute have successfully genetically engineered the
>first mammal hybrid. The Scientists, Dr. Lisa Velasquez and Dr.
>Michael Poczkinsky, used bits of genetic material from both a
>bottle-nosed dolphin and the egg of a walrus, fertilized in vitro, and
>implanted into an adult walrus for gestation. The healthy offspring,
>termed a "Dolrus", seems healthy and is now three months old.
>Phenotypically, it has the features of a somewhat larger dolphin, only
>it is able to carry itself out of the water and locomote on land. The
>Dolrus appears to have the breathing apparatus of the dolphin, but
>preliminary study seems to show tusks will develop much like the
>walrus.