by KIM BELLARD Until last week, for me, “mastodon” only meant the giant animal that went extinct several thousand years ago (I was, it appears, unaware of the heavy metal band Mastodon). Now, as the result of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, many Twitter users are being forced to take a look at alternatives, such as … Read more
A project to recreate the Tasmanian tiger from old and modern genes is underway in Melbourne Australian scientists want to use advanced genetic engineering techniques to make an artificial living cell of a Tasmanian tiger and then produce in a tube new members of the extinct species. The project is being pursued by a lab … Read more
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WSMV) – Researchers at East Tennessee State University discovered an upper arm bone of an animal that they believe to be a member of an extinct group more commonly called “bone-crushing dogs.” Overseen by the Don Sundquist Center of Excellence in Paleontology at ETSU, researchers have studied the Gray Fossil Site for … Read more