FRANKENSHEEP
Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 80, a Montana rancher, fell afoul of US wildlife laws with his plan to let paying customers hunt “massive hybrid sheep” on his property. He created the creatures by importing tissue from the giant Marco Polo sheep of Kyrgyzstan, getting a lab to create cloned embryos from it, then implanting them into ewes on his ranch. This resulted in a single, pure genetic male Marco Polo sheep. Next, Schubarth used this animal’s semen to impregnate local sheep to produce the hybrids he turned loose to be shot by trophy hunters, who appreciated their giant horns. yahoo.com/tech, 13 Mar 2024.
TOSS UP
To test whether both sides of a coin really do have equal chance of coming up when tossed, researchers at the University of Amsterdam got students to flip coins from 46 different currencies. After several intensive 12-hour days of tossing, during which participants were given regular shoulder massages, 350,757
