Comments on: Staring Down Superdog.

By: colin ferguson

colin ferguson — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:19:02 +0000

looks like its eyes are about to pop out its head.it looks like its saying please kill me ima freak and i cant deal with this another day. i bet it has high blood pressure because it looks like its veins are about to burst.im havent ever heard of this disorder but i imagine it must put stress on your body and limit your life expectancy. some korean would love to make some barbecue outta all that meat.

By: Chip Overclock

Chip Overclock — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:33:02 +0000

I’m a fan of Stephen Pressfield’s novel’s that take place in Ancient Greece. The (maybe-mythical/maybe-based-on-an-actual-person) Hercules (a.k.a. Heracles) is mentioned as having been seen by a character in his book LAST OF THE AMAZONS, about the Amazon seige of Athens (which may or may not have actually happened). Anyway, the character debunks a lot of the Herculean myths, like he didn’t wear a lion skin that could not be penetrated by arrows but an iron suit of armor that only Hercules was strong enough to lift (and iron was very hard to come by at this time). One wonders if Hercules was based on an actual person with this disorder, abnormally, freakishly strong. If it’s rare among humans, it would well have been myth inspiring.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:49:12 +0000

Here are some pic of the German baby: Link 1, Link 2

By: Virgin

Virgin — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:01:53 +0000

Now that is scary, though cute. I’m interested in seeing what happens to the child in the future who has the similar “defect”.

By: jonno

jonno — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:23:32 +0000

I work ooooooooooooout!

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:45:29 +0000

The next governor of California?
Wendy wants to “Pump you up!”

By: meg

meg — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:20:02 +0000

I’ve seen it occasionally in Charlois cattle and is pretty common in Piedmont bulls (both are Continental beef cattle, I haven’t seen the trait in any British breeds, though I know it’s certainly possible)…sorta creepy how “ripped” some of them get…

By: biltmore

biltmore — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 05:29:58 +0000

O_o …. wow, that dogs ripped!!!

By: Eliot

Eliot — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:18:33 +0000

I remember seeing pictures of it in Belgian Blue cattle before: http://images.google.com/images?q=myostatin%20cow

Here’s the relevant wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myostatin

By: Gabriel Millerd

Gabriel Millerd — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:01:09 +0000

Dodge Power Ram?

http://www.ulg.ac.be/fmv/texeldm/

WP doesn’t do its justice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular_hypertrophy