Woolly Mouse, Woolly Mammoth. Could Humans Be Woolly Too?
Colossal Biosciences genetically engineered a ‘woolly mouse’ with mammoth traits. The milestone could inform human gene ...
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Dinosaurs: How Well Can We Resurrect the Dead?
but birds like chickens and ostriches (thought to be the closest living relatives of some dinosaurs) come in a wide variety of colors and patterns. After all, as the famous geologist, Charles ...
What the Dodo Tells Us, 300 Years After Its Extinction
What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...
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Birds Are in Trouble across the U.S. But It’s Not Too Late to Protect Them
In the U.S. 42 species of birds have low and steeply declining populations that put them on the brink of disaster, scientists ...
Snakes' secret language of ultraviolet color: A hidden world of predator evasion and camouflage
In the study of why and how animals look the way they do, color is king—at least, the range of color humans can see. A ...
Early mammals were all one color, study suggests
The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...
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Art Lander’s Outdoors: American woodcock, a unique migratory bird with distinctive appearance, behavior
The American Woodcock (Scolopax minor), a.k.a. Timberdoodle, is a migratory game bird in the shorebird family Scolopacidae.
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Hoping to revive mammoths, scientists create 'woolly mice'
The company says reviving extinct species like the mammoth, the dodo and others could help repair ... or changing the color of the hair," Shapiro says.