The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.
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a, Photo of a Ninu with its large ears and characteristic tail; photo credit: E. Peel. A map showing the historical Ninu range (light blue) and estimated current range (dark blue); temperate and semi-arid sampling locations are noted.b, Photo of mounted Yallara specimen; photo credit: K...
“Resurrecting the Tasmanian tiger or the woolly mammoth is not a trivial task, and will require a deep knowledge of both the genome and transcriptome regulation of such renowned species, something that only now is starting to be revealed,” says Emilio Mármol, the lead author of a study...
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Starting at the end of the 19th century, the Tasmanian government paid bounties for thylacine carcasses, as the animals were believed to prey on farmers' sheep and poultry. The marsupials were hunted to extinction by the 1930s. The last known individual died in a Tasmanian zoo in 1936. This...
Animals inThylacinus, the group that includes the Tasmanian tiger, once roamed across New Guinea, mainland Australia and Tasmania. We know this from fossils. For instance, paleontologists have unearthed30 million-year-old thylacine fossilsin Queensland, Australia, as well as a 2,000-year-old carca...
As Shelomi points out, however, even with the progress of such amazing current technology, complete elimination of vector mosquito species worldwide is a long way off. In the meantime, we can work on local efforts starting in our own backyards. This goes back to taking away mosquito breeding...
Why does natural selection occur more in animals than humans? Is natural selection an unfair mechanism? Does natural selection increase variation? How so? Has evolution stopped in all beings or just got slower? 1. Individuals within a population have a nat...
100 Recently Extinct Animals By Bob Strauss 04 of 10 Recently Extinct Game Animal #4 - The Atlas Bear Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain If any game animal has suffered at the hands of human civilization, it's the Atlas Bear,Ursus arctos crowtheri. Starting around the 2nd century A.D., this...