Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Eggs Past and Eggs Future

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The picture above is a shot of a Victorian-era museum collection of wild bird eggs. These kinds of fantastic collections began around th...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

The Beast of Exmoor and Other Nonsense

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A repost from February 2009 Stories of feral "beasts" lurking in the darkness of the English countryside have been around f...
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Thursday, September 06, 2007

The Kennel Club's Scheme

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The Kennel Club has a scheme, and they want you to know about it. I found out about this scheme while cruising The U.K. Kennel Club web sit...
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Friday, June 29, 2007

Cats Came from Iraq 100,000 Years ago

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A look at mitochondrial DNA suggests that cats orinated in Iraq and other parts of the fertile crescent and not in Africa, Europe or North A...
Sunday, April 22, 2007

Coffee and Provocation

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More Pet Food Recalls: The massive recall continues, with more pet food brands being added and melamine-tainted corn and rice gluten now...
Friday, December 30, 2005

Cloned Dog Not a Fake

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A Korean science company has run tests on the dog that Korean scientists claimed they had cloned and they say the dog is indeed the result ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2005

FrankenFido

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William Saletan, one of Slate 's national correspondents, wrote the piece below , which I hope folks will circulate widely as it may get...
Thursday, December 08, 2005

Canine Genetics Made Easy?

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First we had artificial insemination, then we had artificial insemination with frozen sperm ("pupcicles"), and then we had dogs b...
Thursday, August 04, 2005

Is a Cloned Afghan the Beginning of End for Shows?

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It's the first cloned dog -- an Afghan of all things. The process is very, very expensive and inefficient, but so was invitro fertiliza...
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Friday, April 29, 2005

Thinking About Species Loss

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Eskimo Curlew, which may be extinct. We often hear about wildlife species loss , but only rarely is such species loss quantified, defi...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Eastern Coyotes

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Eastern coyotes are larger than their Western counterparts -- no one is quite sure why. One idea is that the Eastern coyote has cross-bred ...