A Beneficial Role For Orange Pigments In Birds And Animals

A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.
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Contents of a Wolf Pup’s Stomach From 14,400 Years Ago Are Teaching Researchers About the Lives of the Last Woolly Rhinos

Analysis of woolly rhinoceros DNA recovered from the permafrost-preserved wolf further hints that the Ice Age beasts went ...
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Ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in Saudi Arabia contain preserved DNA from the long-lost population

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

Mummified cheetahs discovered in caves in Saudi Arabia: "Something that I've never seen before"

Researchers excavated seven mummies along with the bones of 54 other cheetahs from a site near the city of Arar.

The first ‘across the bridge’: Man who received experimental pig kidney transplant now has a human organ

One year ago, Tim Andrews was among the world’s first recipients of a genetically modified pig kidney. Now, he is the first in that small group of pioneers to go on to receive a human kidney.

Mummified cheetahs found in Saudi caves shed light on lost populations

Ahmed Boug and colleagues discovered seven naturally-mummified cheetahs, along with the skeletal remains of 54 additional ...
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Hundreds of snakes awoke early from hibernation. Had they predicted the deadly earthquake that followed?

Examples abound of animals appearing to predict natural disasters, with anecdotes dating back as far as Ancient Greece, when ...