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Mutant fruit flies created by radiation, would take over Earth within months, says 1950 magazine

Ellsworth Toohey
Jan 16, 2025
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In May 1950, Whisper magazine warned its readers of humanity's impending doom — not from communism or atomic bombs, but from giant mutant fruit flies created in a Nobel Prize winner's laboratory.

"One of the most terrifying sights under the sun is that of billions of ants, in a solid column over a mile wide and several miles long, marching through the ju…

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