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Animal news: Why is this NOT an April Fools’ joke?

Posted on April 6, 2023 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: “This is not an April Fools’ joke,” said the founder of an Australian startup that exhibited a meatball made by inserting genes from the long-extinct woolly mammoth into a sheep cell.  

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Animal news to cause consternation

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Naomi

From Harper’s 12/21 Index: Estimated year by which the woolly mammoth could become de-extinct: 2026. Let’s see, counting on my fingers that’ll be two years after the next presidential election. Is this of significance?

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More animal news: teeny teeny, very old and indestructible

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Naomi

The very first thing I thought when notified by the New York Times science section that there is a miniscule animal, a bdelloid rotifer, who was brought back to life after being frozen in permafrost for 24,000 years, was…what a … Continue reading →

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