Scientists Create hideous glowing Frog/Jellyfish Hybrids

I for one welcome our new Glow in the dark Frog-Jellyfish overlords.

From http://cbs4denver.com/wireapnewswy/UW.professor.part.2.1390952.html

African clawed frog tadpoles modified with jellyfish genes show promise as a faster and less expensive way to detect pollution than traditional methods, say a University of Wyoming professor and researchers in France.What's more, the green-glowing tadpoles indicate whether pollution exists in a form that can be absorbed by an organism and therefore might be dangerous to people. That's more difficult with conventional methods."We're tracking dosages that would show up in terms of development in either a person or a tadpole," said Paul Johnson, a physics and astronomy professor at the University of Wyoming.Some tadpoles have been engineered to light up in response to metals. Others fluoresce when exposed to pollution from plastic that might cause health problems by mimicking the hormone estrogen.

While we're at it let's make them 200 feet tall and breathe fire too.

Weird Sloth-Mutation attacks children

Here's the latest in wtf creature sightings that seem are becoming more common.

"Gollum-Like" monster attacks children

A slimy, glob-like creature dubbed Gollum has terrified children after it slithered out of a lake and clambered over the rocks towards them.

The young teenagers were playing by the waterfront in a Panama lake near Cerro Azul when the bald beast emerged from a cave behind a waterfall. They started screaming as it shuffled out "as if to attack them".

Locals told Panama news the monster was like "Gollum from Lord of the Rings".

Of course then the children did the only sensible thing when confronted by a freakish hairless mutation - they threw rocks at it until it died. This could have been the last of an endangered species of mutant sloth-things. Good job kids.



This thing is pretty bizarre looking, even for a mutant.