What do you get when you cross a jelly fish with a pig?

Why, glow-in-the-dark ham of course!

Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that glow in the dark. Supposedly this research will help with the study of human disease, but come on, you know they just wanted to see a pig glow.

Taiwan is not claiming a world first. Others have bred partially fluorescent pigs before. But the researchers insist the three pigs they have produced are better.

They are the only ones that are green from the inside out. Even their heart and internal organs are green, they say.

To create them, DNA from jellyfish was added to about 265 pig embryos which were implanted in eight different pigs.

In daylight the researchers say the pigs' eyes, teeth and trotters look green. Their skin has a greenish tinge.

In the dark, shine a blue light on them and they glow torch-light bright.

The researchers say they hope the new, green pigs will mate with ordinary female pigs to create a new generation - much greater numbers of transgenic pigs for use in research.

Awww, cute glow-in-the-dark piglets! Do you think glow-in-the-dark is a recessive gene though?