WHAT IF...We could sample animal DNA and create new unimagined hybrids?

Exhibit at the WHAT IF... Exhibition in the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin in 2009
Transgenic Bestiary, 2009 by Nicolas Myers
Transgenic Bestiary is a game that envisions the use of animal DNA to discover biodiversity, understand taxonomy and create collections of unimagined hybrids. In order to create rich and complex creatures, the player has to mix species close enough in the tree of life. Combining unrelated species leads to unstable animals that will eventually die.

Far from being fictional, many of the technologies and trends underlying this project already exist today. It only makes sense to use this vast amount of information for recreational purposes, to satisfy curiosity and let non-specialists grasp and appropriate this bewildering biodiversity.

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[asthenia166]

These guys should stop playing around with 3d modules and give us some real info. Then again if they did they would probably be murdered by the government.

[alphaking000]

amg spores is turning into reality



[heydud11]

so like spore in real life

[DASW7]

sick shit. mary shelly prolly rolling in her grave.

[godofwar123786]

New Pokemons sounds cool!

[ThisIsSpartaBob]

Didn't they learn any thing from splice? even tho it's fiction that's possible and THEN we the humas will all die. hypotheticaly of course tho :P

[izaccy]

This is what i was looking for,

designing new monsters,

exactly what i wish to do.

[aronkacska]

now that would be awsome