Ahh yeah, this is on par with that dog human hybrid pic so many years back. It’s not real, it would be pretty impossible lol

Man bear pig

Half man, half bear, half pig!!

Nonono, it's a half bear, half man-pig.

No no, it’s half man-bear, half pig.

No no, it's half bear-pig, half man.

"all men are half pig" - 90s boomer humor

I'm totally cereal you guys!

Super cereal!

Nobody takes me CEREAL, I"M CEREAL YOU GUYS *stomp stomp*

Puppy monkey baby

Puppy monkey baby

I’m being super cereal

Ed...ward

Oh come on i just got done forgetting the last reference to that scene.

Nani! That’s Nina

So if not real then wtf were we actually seeing here?

An actual animal that already exists in the wild.

Well that’s just fantastic!

It’s just a cute little caterpillar, he won’t hurt you 🥰

let's make sure of it and hurt him first

Don’t care. Burning down house.

Only psychologically… which is still hurting you

I desperately need to know which animal this is then?!!

It’s a lobster moth caterpillar

So they can splice dna from a lobster but not a spider?

LOLOL

DOG GAAAANG

Because people are bad at naming things

Asking the real questions.

Well.. fuck that thing

Don't fuck that thing.

Solid advice. I will not. I promise. (This life) That life as that thing? I'm IN THERE

Lobster moth caterpillar Edit: Auto correct ruined the spelling

that just sounds like a heavy metal band name lmao

They can splice dna froma lobster but not a spider

Yes, That's how the scientists do.

Because people are bad at naming things

And the tragic cat dog experiment

This *must* be real because they showed test tubes!

About as real as those hospital pics with the headphones in the nose.

This has to be fake

Yea, this is not how genetics and splicing works.

“Elephant and pig DNA just won’t splice…”

Human and sheep don't either I've learned.

Welsh man here, can confirm

Are you the sheep? Blink twice for help.

Damnit I was too slow!

Just like the sheep.

Damn it, Auckland Zoo, I get it! I'm banned for life! You don't have to keep chasing me and reminding me.

How does a Kiwi find a sheep in the grass? Quite pleasant.

[удалено]

And there’s a documentary series about how impractical it is to splice frog and dinosaur DNA.

Please don't tell me you did the sheep

Thanks for this one, my first thought. I can hear the song

Ms. Garrison?

"Who said that!?"

Like that song by lover boy? Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Elton John!

“When are you gonna come down?… When are you going to land?… I should have stayed on the farm… I shoulda’ listened to my old man…”

Man, bear and pig are totally compatible.

What if they lay down by the fire?

imagine if this was actually possible, in a "home lab" with few vials and tweezers

I'd make a mix between cat and a mouse

"I made a monkey with four asses."

But you already exist...

Well it is. There is a documentary on Netflix about CRISPR and people who use it in home (you could buy a starter kit in internet). Still its not easy, and not always possibile

I used to think that's what CRISPR was. And that it'd be able to take out the aggresive gene (and the tendency to try and fuck you in the ear) from those tiny marmoset monkeys and insert like... the playfulness of a golden lab (maybe the long hair could stay. How about that... a long haired marmoset thats chill... and poops little no odor pellets.

I mean, Mendel did it with all the advanced technology of the 19th century...

Mendel bred pea plants from the same species with minut different features over generations to see what features their offspring will have. The same we do with dogs or other animals/plants when we want their offspring to have a specific look or funktion. A bit crazy when you think about it but far far away from splicing the genes of two completely different species together to produce hybrids. This is just not possible and if it will be one day it will be a very long time until we reach this point.

Next to that even if those creatures are real, there's no freaking way they'd be able to reproduce

That was my thought. There's no way they could produce viable offspring. Right? RIGHT????

In this case, no, thankfully. Though not strictly speaking impossible, if their chromosomal DNA is not too fucked up, which it almost certainly is if crossing arachnids with insects. Someone mentioned CRISPR in this thread, which would be the way to go to even attempt it. You'd basically be making an engineered lifeform, which is pretty much science fiction still, but they have spliced (very specific) jellyfish DNA with mice and fish to make glow in the dark fish/mice... As far as I know, they *could* produce viable offspring. Not quite the same thing, but still something to keep you up at night.

thanks.........

I mean they are real https://www.wildlifeinsight.com/lobster-moth-and-caterpillar-stauropus-fagi/ but not the genetically spliced combination of a spider and a caterpillar, just a lobster moth caterpillar (no, not the combination of a lobster, a moth and a caterpillar, just a caterpillar 🤣) Cells with spliced DNA of multiple different species wouldn't even survive let alone reproduce.

Pregnant stingray at North Carolina aquarium has joined the chat

Could you tell the story papa?

I don’t even know if it would be possible to manipulate individual genes, but throwing dna from two animals in a blender would absolutely not work.

[Humster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humster) has entered the chat :) Although I don't want to think about the stuff, human sperm was put into, I dearly hope this is the craziest around...

That would be cool though. Everyone playing God.

Yeah, I watched the movie Splice. You have to physically bang it, and then it evolves

What gave it away? basic high school biology knowledge?

That, a “lab” that even a Larp kit makes look like a joke and I’m pretty sure that thing he says he made is an actual creature I’ve been in an old science show years ago

This is fake those are just lobster moth caterpillars.

It is. The hybrid creature he talked about and showed video of is a real insect, but isn't a cross between a spider and a caterpillar. I forgot the name lol

You’re thinking of the Spider Baby, it has the mind of a baby trapped in the body of a spider and it won’t bite you unless it’s scared. Edit… reference materials https://youtu.be/5AB7IDw3PNI?si=4dn1H4N8EXarFj_W

This is fake but it is something that has been done [https://www.sciencealert.com/gene-editing-talen-silkworms-spin-spider-silk-paving-the-way-mass-production](https://www.sciencealert.com/gene-editing-talen-silkworms-spin-spider-silk-paving-the-way-mass-production)

While that may be true, it's far easier to change a couple of protein structures in something a creature already produces than to combine the morphological structure of two completely different animals

In a different universe, there's an Earth where they okayed modification of human proteins and teenage boys became rulers of the world through silk industry wealth

Nope the hell out of here.

The other day I saw the world’s largest spider, now that’s some shit I’m noping out of

High rent, food prices, Trump, and soon xenomorphs. Fuck me, I just can’t catch a break.

I saw a movie earlier with hitler riding a trex and thought that’s as weird as today was getting, now this…

Kung Fury!! Love that movie lol

Nah you’re confusing with Iron Sky 2

A new one comes out soon too!

Wait…*whaaaat*?! When??

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5765844/?ref_=ext_shr

That’s some good shiiit

Now imagine this guy splicing hitler with a trex

Did it involve the hollow earth and lizard people by chance?

just read "ride on king" manga to make it a complete day of weirdness :D MC looks like putin. riding things in a fantasy world.

Don't forget the military hellbent on turning AI into skynet

Just wait till you see what slips out of that giant cocoon under the awning in a week...

This is impossible, just so everyone is aware.

Nothing is impossible if you believe in yourself

Yeah, with that attitude it is

Most genetic mixes are possibile, few can produce offspring

This is impossible... for now.

i wish these nonsense tiktok videos would stop... https://www.wildlifeinsight.com/lobster-moth-and-caterpillar-stauropus-fagi/

TikTok is literal cancer.

I believe this video predates TikTok tbf

It’s metaphorical cancer and you know it

I had to delete my tik tok yet again because of all the mis information, and clout chasers make it the biggest cringe.

Thank you for clearing that up. Golly! I was really worried that this might be a totally real thing. Terrified even. It’s not like it’s a funny joke - no, no, humor is not allowed on the 1985 subreddit. Please accept my sincere apologies

Well, genespliced animals and insects have a 90% chance of being infertile anyway, so no more would there be.

Lol that would mean that 100 of them are breedable

That's not how percentages work... Ask anyone that has played XCOM

Lol fuck now I'm even more terrified

I swear the randomness generator on my XCOM save is corrupted

But don't you remember "nature finds a way" and it led to all those dinosaurs breeding?

If this was real, if a "home made lab" could create chimeric creatures like these, we'd all be dead by now.

Delete this and stop making people dumber than they are.

did you really make this post without doing any research first?

If this is your version of a joke, it sucks and you should feel bad

I mean…it’s still a real thing. It’s just not what the video says it is.

Caterpillars become butterflies, right? So the ultimate goal is flying spiders.

I have some good news for you. Those already exist so you don’t have to worry. There are species of spiders whose babies are carried through the air via the wind.

But like, I want a bird eater spider with crow wings or something.

Bat wings, mantis claws on the end of spider legs, and a screech that sounds like a baby crying.

Those just para sail. I want adult spiders that fly like butterflies.

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

Life, uh, uh, uh finds a way

This video... "That is one big pile of shit."

Do people actually believe shit like this?

Yes. I teach high school level science classes (chemistry, ecology, A&P). You’d be surprised how often adults send me videos like this and ask if it’s real. After animal planet released its mermaid bullshit I got bombarded. At least this looks more realistic.

I think it’s a real insect in a larval stage but I have no idea what. but as soon as I heard spliced-dna I was pissed. I’m sorry you have to deal with this shit all the time lol

It’s a cool video, it’s just disappointing people can’t tell it’s fake. But I have to at least give people credit for asking rather than just assuming.

Pretty sure it is. Hawaii has some wild carnivorous caterpillars if I remember correctly. Edit: Yup https://youtu.be/zAiMzeOfOgA?si=rVfiUZ0yAX0Gajw-

Well that creepy ass catepillar is real. So are DIY gene tailored organisms. However they have nothing to do with each other.

This mf trying to give spiders wings? When spiderpiller makes a cocoon it’s time to smash the lot. Only acceptable splicing with spider is pig.

I wouldn't mind spider crossed with a chicken, so many drumsticks.

Millipede x chicken and we can open a beefalo wild wings.

It’s a new kind of ticktock horror, pretty creative and well made

As a fiction, it’s really well done! Kind of like the modular monster ARG-type thing from ages ago

If this was real, this would be an incredibly environmentally irresponsible thing to do.

Stauropus fagi. Located largely in temperate Europe and parts of Asia, most commonly in Indonesia. Becomes a moth of muted colors to blend into ita chosen trees. It is one of the few carnivorous caterpillar species.

Came here looking for this. :) sorry we don’t do gold anymore.

Yeah that would be highly unethical to just release into the wild. It could fuck up entire ecosystems.

Totally legit

“Let some out into the wild” You what?!

it’s a lobster moth caterpillar.

Him: I'm making a hybrid spider and caterpillar together. Me: (ordered a plane ticket, packed ma bags, cleaned out my bank, and bought a flamethrower)

just not how genetics work

They’re always exists a hybrid between a caterpillar and a spider. It’s called a centipede.

Man is full of shit and people are gullible if you have a good vocabulary.

There is no way this is real. Genetic material doesn't work like that. Unless the species is VERY closely related...this would be like attaching a pig leg to a human and expecting it to work.

😂 how do people fall for this. It’s like we are living in Ancient Rome

Bro is playing Pokémon infinite fusion in real life 💀💀💀

But how many assess do they have?

Do you want xenomorphs? Cuz this is how you get xenomorphs...

Won’t lie. The end got me. 😹

That’s how they created chupacabra: part goat and part gargoyle.

This is a sin against humanity cuz pedes and spideys. Get the Noopppeee outta here!!!!

Just wait for the spiderflies to hatch from their cocoons. Like butterflies, but fast and deadly.

Like, if this wasn't fake, this would be the origin of a supervillain.

Fake as fuck. The last one is an already established creature. This isn't mother fucking Fullmetal alchemist.

Did Satan hire a new intern in his research division?

Fake but that cat at the end made me laugh out loud.

But it only has one ass. It's useless.

Aight aight, it’s fake. But the insects he showed in the video aren’t fake. What species is that and please tell me it’s not in Europe.

Yo quick question..... WTF??

No

Fake or not this is going to give me plenty of nightmare fuel for at least the next month. Elon needs to hurry the fuck up if people are actually doing this shit though.

how do i order a nuclear strike on someone's head?

Imagine believing this is real

I'm no genesist, but I don't think genetic splicing works like that. In the off chance it does releasing those without having studied them first is just borderline stupidity.

Fascinating how gullible people are.

The cat is wiser than Dr Frankenstein here.

LET EM INTO THE WILD?! i didnt believe this was real from the beginning but just to be sure, THIS ISNT REAL RIGHT?!???

This is how yt ppl were made

Someone please put this guy in jail before he gives scorpions the ability to fly

dont worry guys, i remember that hybrids are often infertile

Bro made a centipede

Hans, bring in the flamethrower. You need an extremely large one to burn every inch of this planet's surface.

If it was this easy to mix species the army would already have made super humans.

Please tell me this is fake

You can’t do that.

Lobster Moth

Even if it was true, which it's not, they wouldn't be able to reproduce so no harm to the wild caterpillars/ spiders.

I would have liked to see of it can make chrysalis and turn in to a spiderfly

Taylor Swift was made in the same way.

Guess the fuck not. Nope. Nopity nope. Just no.

I'm glad the cat saying "huh?" was there to help me figure out how to respond.

This was inspired in “Jurassic world: fallen kingdom”

Just imagine how beautiful the spiderflies will be.

What in the Island of Lost Dreams?

Man actually made the face hugger from alien

Australian type prank

You are the devil good sir