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Rare Tree Kangaroo Reappears After Vanishing for 90 Years. Once thought to be extinct, the Wondiwoi tree kangaroo has just been photographed in a remote New Guinea mountain range.

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Remarkably, conservation of genomes of all species in terms of sequence and synteny is accompanied by a great diversity of karyotypes, which can be explained by rearrangements of chromosomal segments.

Voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus), on the other hand, didn’t grow bigger, but their skulls changed more dramatically. They developed flatter skulls and smaller auditory bullae—bony structures in the ...

The rats aren’t what they used to be. Anyone who lives in Chicago might think nothing of a chipmunk scurrying by, but all the scraps of processed food that the local chipmunks have pilfered from ...

Tiny rodents living in a major American city are unique examples of evolution playing out in real time.. Like geologic time itself, the process of evolution itself is generally a very slow process ...

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Tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii) of Kangaroo Island origin were maintained in our breeding colony in grassy, outdoor enclosures. Lucerne cubes, grass, and water were provided ad libitum and ...

Figure 2. Identification of GPR1-AS orthologs from original placental and extra-embryonic transcriptomes. Predicted transcripts were generated from placental and extra-embryonic directional RNA-seq ...