The first artificially engineered penguin has been born. 12 weeks ago, a test tube baby penguin was hatched at the Sea World in San Diego. The Magellan penguin has still yet to be named, and is currently addressed as 184. However, she is interacting with the natural born penguins and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between her and a naturally bred penguin. She eats fish and interacts with adult penguins the way any baby penguin would. Scientists have started this project to increase this species' chance of surviving, by adding dynamic to the gene pool. There are only 1.8 million of these penguins left in South America and they're numbers are fleeting because of oil spills and climate changes. Scientists are hoping to rejuvenate this species existence.
I think this is an interesting idea. Science is playing with life. I wonder if they have any other motives behind these experiments and plan on testing these methods on other species. The penguin is cute, however, if science is able to grow life from test tubes, who knows what we're up against. Are humans becoming too powerful?
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/first-test-tube-penguin-says-hello-to-the-world-142643902.html?.b=index&.cf3=Odd+News&.cf4=2&.cf5=The+Sideshow&.cf6=%2F
It really puts a lot of faith into those scientists. I mean really, they have the power to create life in their hands, and it'll be interesting to see what that'll lead to.
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Science is truly amazing. This could lead to all new kinds of advances, such as the prevention of species extinction and new medical techniques.
ReplyDeleteThat's amazing! I'm glad they were able to make a penguin! Especially since they're going to be extinct pretty soon. I feel like this can open doors to many things and can hopefully contribute to finding more answers.
ReplyDeletePeople can create anything. It's a "test tube baby". -Avery Alexander
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