a dragon in every home

With luck, you may soon be able to buy a mythological pet

This is too cool:
PAOLO FRIL, chairman and chief scientific officer of GeneDupe, based in San Melito, California, is a man with a dream. That dream is a dragon in every home. GeneDupe's business is biotech pets.... He plans a range of entirely new animals—or, rather, of really quite old animals, with the twist that even when they did exist, it was only in the imagination....Their secret is a new field, which they call “virtual cell biology”.
....Each computer starts with a search image (dragon, unicorn, gryphon, etc), and the genome of the real animal most closely resembling it ..... The virtual genomes of these real animals are then tweaked by random electronic mutations. When they have matured, the virtual adults most closely resembling the targets are picked and cross-bred, while the others are culled.....Using this rapid evolutionary process, GeneDupe's scientists have arrived at genomes for a range of mythological creatures—in a computer, at least. The next stage, on which they are just embarking, is to do it for real.This involves synthesising, with actual DNA, the genetic material that the computer models predict will produce the mythical creatures....

You know, I'm pretty stupid.
I read this whole article and sent it to a friend. And then I went to a link where it said this guy also made a goldfish with real gold on its scales. And that article was also dated March 31. Duh.
Today's April Fools Day. And now I notice the scientist's name is an anagram of April Fool.
Sigh.

Okay, you got me. But it's still a cool idea.