Manipulation of nucleic-acids is based on their physical & chemical properties in turn reflected in their biological function; intrinsically DNA is a very stable molecule; it has been recovered from frozen mammoths in high-enough quality to be cloned; this stability…
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Recently completed studies on dog health have identified the importance of using dog supplements to aid the canine digestive system. By first studying how contemporary life styles of pets and their owners relate to dog nutrition the these studies have…
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An elephant’s trunk is truly amazing. The trunk is the elephants nose and upper lip combined. It actually has two nostrils running all the way through it and has a flap at the end which look like a lip. An…
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African wild cats are a steady species that are found all across most of the African plain, as well as traveling towards the middle east. These cats live in the desert and are known for being shy around other types…
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SO YOU WANNA BE A FORENSIC ENTOMOLOGIST There’s been a murder. The body is lying there in the field, covered with dirt and bugs. It’s been there a day—or maybe a week. That’s where you come in. You are a…
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Simple creatures, the translucent lobate ctenophores are small, walnut shaped sacs of jelly with only a couple of specialized organs. These organs are used to detect chemical traces in water to help locate food and a statocyst to help the…
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You may think that if you have seen one worm, you have seen them all. In fact there are many different sorts of worms, some so completely unlike the others that they are placed in their own major groups. The…
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Many scientists believe that all animal and plant life have developed from a single form of life that arose about 3 ½ billion years ago. This basic life form as we know it has gradually changed to throughout the past…
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Polychaetes, platyhelminthes, velvet worms, earthworms, peanut worms, pogonophorans and priapulids… one could be forgiven for thinking that there were no more kinds of worms to discuss in the Zoology channel…. but wait! there’s more! May I pull aside the curtains…
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Priapulids are worm-like pseudocoelomate invertebrates that appear in the fossil record some 500 million years ago in the Cambrian Period. They have survived virtually unchanged up to the present and so qualify as living fossils. There are only 16 living…
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