# Ewerassic Park **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2024, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814 "2024-03-13T23:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/1 "2024-03-13T23:41:00Z")
> **[Montana man used animal tissue and testicles to breed 'giant' sheep for sale...](https://apnews.com/article/wildlife-trafficking-giant-sheep-montana-texas-7afaa046c051287ba7f322b6732e31be)** > > Federal prosecutors say a Montana rancher illegally used tissue and testicles from wild sheep that were killed by hunters in central Asia and the U.S. to breed “giant” sheep hybrids for sale to private hunting preserves in Texas. A man from Montana created hybrid sheep for hunting by illegally importing body parts from the endangered Marco Polo AKA Argali sheep from Asia, sending the tissue to a lab where it was cloned, and then breeding the resulting male with other species of sheep. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/2 "2024-03-13T23:49:35Z")
Great avatar/topic match. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/3 "2024-03-13T23:53:29Z")
The story I saw about this was on Gizmodo and it seemed so unbelievable, I did a double-take and checked that it wasn’t from The Onion (a sister site to Gizmodo). I’d never heard of the Argali sheep or that genetic tinkering of that sort was possible for basically an amateur. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/4 "2024-03-13T23:56:02Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > that genetic tinkering of that sort was possible for basically an amateur. That’s what I find most fascinating. They’ve been telling us for years now that we are approaching the point where people will be able to tinker with DNA in their garage. I guess this is what that looks like. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/5 "2024-03-14T00:00:52Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Great avatar/topic match. I’ll have you know that my avatar depicts the noble Ibex, which is a _goat_, not a sheep! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/6 "2024-03-14T00:09:10Z")
I kid, I kid! Like a young ibex. 🥺 ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/7 "2024-03-14T11:14:22Z")
Science! Now they can start getting the movie people interested. Of course, the fascinating documentary [Black Sheep](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3) already covered much of this ground. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/8 "2024-03-14T11:24:39Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > They’ve been telling us for years now that we are approaching the point where people will be able to tinker with DNA in their garage. I guess this is what that looks like. I hope it never looks like _The White Plague_ by Frank Herbert. Imagine somebody starts tinkering with Covid DNA… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/9 "2024-03-14T12:37:11Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > A man from Montana created hybrid sheep for hunting by illegally importing body parts from the endangered Marco Polo AKA Argali sheep from Asia, sending the tissue to a lab where it was cloned, and then breeding the resulting male with other species of sheep. If we have oversized sheep in a desert environment can **Stroon** be far behind? > **[Norstrilia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norstrilia)** > > Norstrilia is a science fiction novel by American writer Paul Linebarger, published under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith. It is the only novel he published under this name, which he used for his science fiction works (though several related short stories were once packaged together as a short novel Quest of the Three Worlds). It takes place in Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind universe, and was heavily influenced by the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. The novel is in part a sequel to ... ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/10 "2024-03-14T13:33:05Z")
> **[Wake Up Sheeple](https://xkcd.com/1013/)** > > You will be led to judgement like lambs to the slaughter--a simile whose existence, I might add, will not do your species any favors. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/11 "2024-03-14T14:40:01Z")
A so baaaaad it’s good movie. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/12 "2024-03-14T16:40:06Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Science! Now they can start getting the movie people interested. Of course, the fascinating documentary [Black Sheep](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3) already covered much of this ground. **Black Sheep** was long predated by **The Godmonster of Indian Flats** which features, you’ll observe, a significantly oversized carnivorous sheep. > **[Godmonster of Indian Flats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godmonster_of_Indian_Flats)** > > Godmonster of Indian Flats is a 1973 American Western horror film written and directed by Fredric Hobbs, and starring Christopher Brooks, E. Kerrigan Prescott, Karen Ingenthron and Stuart Lancaster. Set in a mining and "Old West" tourism community in northern Nevada, the plot depicts the accidental creation of a giant sheep monster that terrorizes the town, as well as a plot about race relations in the 1970s American West. > The film received little to no theatrical release, but has seen multipl... Note that > [@](#): > > The film likely inspired the 2006 New Zealand horror-comedy film [_Black Sheep_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sheep_(2006_New_Zealand_film)), with IMDb going so far as to label the latter a “remake”.[ > **[Godmonster of Indian Flats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godmonster_of_Indian_Flats)** > > Godmonster of Indian Flats is a 1973 American Western horror film written and directed by Fredric Hobbs, and starring Christopher Brooks, E. Kerrigan Prescott, Karen Ingenthron and Stuart Lancaster. Set in a mining and "Old West" tourism community in northern Nevada, the plot depicts the accidental creation of a giant sheep monster that terrorizes the town, as well as a plot about race relations in the 1970s American West. > The film received little to no theatrical release, but has seen multipl... > [@](#): > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q68L2FE8-NA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q68L2FE8-NA) ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/13 "2024-03-14T16:42:37Z")
Oooo! Now I know what I want to watch next Friday night! ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/14 "2024-03-14T17:04:27Z")
Remember the old tale about the sheep in Scotland being black on only one side? This guy can make it happen. I’m holding out for a checkerboard sheep. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/15 "2024-03-14T17:12:04Z")
Coming soon: “Night Of The Lepus-The Documentary”. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ewerassic-park/998814/16 "2024-03-14T17:49:30Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#): > > Imagine somebody starts tinkering with Covid DNA… Nitpick: Covid has no DNA. It’s an RNA virus.