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Albino Alligators

They are cream while others are cocoa; they are chalk while others are (exceptionally dark) cheese- these reptilian oddities are the albinos of the cold-blooded world. But does their condition cause them to perform differently in the great Darwinian game of life-and-death?

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The Terrifying Truth About Jellyfish

They are a dash of colour on the high seas, bringing both beauty and death wherever they go. Largely ignored by science for decades these poorly-understood creatures have recently been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Scientists have begun asking questions about jellyfish, and the answers may just undermine what we think we know about the origins of diversity on earth...

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Cloning the Woolly Mammoth

In November 2008, a team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania reported they had sequenced a large fraction of the Mammoth genome. The genome of any living species is the DNA genes which make up the chromosomes that reside in the nucleus of every cell and if we have that, then we might be able recreate the entire beast. We are on the road that leads to cloning a whoolly mammoth.

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