Press release on the scientific discovery: https://www.inrae.fr/en/news/mystery-four-horned-goats-and-sheep-finally-solved
Their results reveal that polycerate individuals all carry a mutation affecting the same gene: HOXD1. This is a homeotic gene, which means that it is involved in the organisation of the body plan during the development of embryos.
I hope no mad scientist ever plays with that gene 😅
Article of the photo source https://myanmarnewsfeed.xyz/la-oveja-hebridean-de-cuatro-cuernos-una-criatura-iconica-y-misteriosa/
22 Comments
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 2y
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
I will always upvote Metalocalypse
shaman1093@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
Me toos
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2y
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2y
I'm not usually into goats but that is one sexy goat.
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y
This one's a sheep though 😄
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y
Oh good I'm still not a goat guy.
pleb_maximus@feddit.de · 8 pts · 2y
Looks pretty metal either way.
kamenlady@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Ikr - these are horns, exquisite horns
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Some call them horns, others handlebars.
ghostface@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Is this you john oliver?
Doesntpostmuch@possumpat.io · 16 pts · 2y
Wouldst thou like the taste of butter?
xhieron@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
A pretty dress?
vincenttwice@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Dost thou like travel?
stelelor@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 2y
No mad scientists, just regular scientists working on regular fruit flies. What could go wrong?
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Well fuck
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Yeah, it is pretty nightmare fuelish, but the advances in developmental biology that came from those studies was amazing. Interesting how the formation of different organisms can follow very similar processes.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I, for one, do not want four horned fruit flies!
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 7 pts · 2y
I wonder if I can get a 4 horned goat skull off craigslist considering I am surrounded by farm land... 🤔 Shit would be a bitchin decoration.
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 4 pts · 2y
Checkmate, asatanists…
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2y
You look at that and just immediately know what music it likes. Hansen.
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Ironically, I'm wearing my Baphomet t-shirt today (from John Romero's Sigil big box) and I just realized that the goat-headed one only has 2 horns!
This is the design on the shirt:
What a shame, someone get this demon a mutation quick!