Genetic DNA splicing.

[Kari Lynn]

I just watched a rented Movie last night, called "Splice"
http://www.moviefone.com/movie/splice/36340/main

While I was watching it, I couldn't help but notice how possibly close to the truth this fictional movie might actually be. Especially when talking about the mutations they created, Amoebae looking blobs called Fred and Ginger.
Then looking at the mutations that have been found off the shores of Montauk, ei, Montauk Monster. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395294,00.html
Which is believed to have drowned and washed ashore from Plum Island genetics research and development facility that is located there. (suspected facility?)
Or could be the Plum Island animal disease center?
http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=19-40-00-00

But in the movie, they took the experiments in gene splicing further and added human DNA to the batter.

[Atlas]

Then looking at the mutations that have been found off the shores of Montauk, ei, Montauk Monster. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395294,00.html


Concerning the Montauk Monster, see:


What was the Montauk monster? (http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/08/04/the-montauk-monster/)
Naturalists Confirm Montauk Monster Is Relative Of Rocky Raccoon (http://www.hamptons.com/article.php?articleID=4474#.UwuXC_mSySo)
wikipedia.org/Montauk_Monster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Monster)
and 'Montauk Monster' Mystery May Have Been Solved (http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/06/05/montauk-monster-mystery-may-have-been-solved/):

Some speculated it was an escaped mutant from a government lab. Others thought it was an alien. A few suggested it might be a dog or raccoon. Now one man has come forward, or at least his friend has, to claim it was all the work of him and his buddies.


"I was one of those guys behind that Montauk monster thing last summer," the unnamed individual told blogger Drew Grant over lunch Wednesday.

He then related a tale of finding a dead raccoon in the sand on nearby Shelter Island in late June 2008. Being young men on vacation, they put the animal on an inflatable child's swim duck, along with a lot of other debris. Then they set it on fire and pushed it out to sea.


"This creature was honored with a Viking funeral, not merely exploited for crass entertainment," the anonymous raccoon undertaker insisted.


"In the interest of full disclosure," he added, "this did happen shortly after a waterboarding endurance competition, and just before a clothespins-on-your-genitals challenge."

About two weeks later, the Montauk Monster was found around the other side of Long Island's South Fork.