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Large mammals are classified as those that weigh ten kilograms of more excluding domestic cats and dogs. include animals such as horned animals, antlered animals, bears, and some of the bigger wild dogs and wild cats.
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MAR 01, 2024Earth & The Environment
It's thought that about 700 MYA, Earth experienced its most dramatic ice age climate, in which the entire planet was com ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 11, 2024Earth & The Environment
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In a recent study published in eLife, an international team of researchers discuss how different mammals respond to the ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 03, 2022Clinical & Molecular DX
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MAR 01, 2024
Earth & The Environment
It's thought that about 700 MYA, Earth experienced its most dramatic ice age climate, in which the entire planet was com
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 11, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Earth once hosted many massive creatures called megafauna, and humans drove the extinction of many. That seems to have c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 06, 2023
Plants & Animals
Can scientists use DNA from polar bear footprints to help improve conservation efforts during this age of climate change
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 06, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
How did cats evolve into so many different species, like tigers, panthers, and domestic cats? A new study has explored c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 18, 2023
Technology
A team of researchers at Dartmouth College have leveraged AI insights to better understand the main driver behind the ex
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
JUL 24, 2023
Plants & Animals
A recent study published in JMIRx Bio examines the longstanding “eel hypothesis” to explain the size of the
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 08, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Recent headlines have highlighted the unusual ways that whales can behave when they come into contact with humans. Repor
...
Written By:
Amelia Rhodeland
JUN 17, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Scientists from the University of Zurich and Pennsylvania State University have found that warmer temperatures are corre
...
Written By:
Amelia Rhodeland
JUN 15, 2023
Plants & Animals
Today is a special day for a special species of ancient Earth, Megalodons, also known as Otodus megalodon, as June 15 is
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 27, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Defaunation is the loss or decline of animal species around the world, a phenomenon which is accelerating in recent year
...
Written By:
Amelia Rhodeland
MAR 21, 2023
Earth & The Environment
In a recent study published in Nature, a team of researchers led by Equinor US examine how the Bakken Shale Formation lo
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 22, 2023
Microbiology
In a first, scientists have used bat cells to create bat induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which can now be used t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 20, 2023
Earth & The Environment
During its approximately 4.5 billion years of existence, the planet Earth has been home to around 8.7 million species of
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 17, 2023
Plants & Animals
Yesterday a story started to pop up everywhere about a terrifying beach discovery. A woman walking along Crystal Beach i
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 06, 2023
Neuroscience
A Nagoya University research team found that a group of EP3 neurons play a crucial role in regulating mammalian body tem
...
Written By:
Kerry Charron
NOV 03, 2022
Health & Medicine
An elephant trunk can perform a range of large and fine motor skills thanks to "fingers" at the tip of the tru
...
Written By:
Kerry Charron
SEP 05, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
An image by Wang Qiang shows a mouse that carries two chromosomes fused together, the first engineered karyotype in mice
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 31, 2022
Earth & The Environment
In a recent study published in eLife, an international team of researchers discuss how different mammals respond to the
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 03, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
With the 2020 Covid lockdowns still fresh in our minds, the recent outbreak of monkeypox in the United States has many p
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 13, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
In Malaysia in the fall of 1998, a mystery ailment swept through the local pig-farming community, eventually leading to
...
Written By:
Zoe Michaud
DEC 03, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
The gene editing tool CRISPR was originally inspired by an immune defense system used by bacteria, and it's been adapted
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 29, 2021
Plants & Animals
Extinction events have been common in Earth’s history. Over the last 450 million years, for example, there have be
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
NOV 08, 2021
Health & Medicine
A new study finds that over 900 genes are expressed during human pregnancy
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
NOV 08, 2021
Cancer
Elephants possess two qualities that might make one expect they are at high risk of developing cancer; they are large an
...
Written By:
Katie Kokolus