19th April 2025
In the Spotlight

Why Animals are not always pretty

by Editor in Wildlife 0

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Elder reported that hippopotamuses find relief from overeating by piercing their skin in a hippo version of bloodletting. Eventually, scientists learned that the oozing red stuff Pliny described isn’t [...]

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Animal Diseases

Antiviral Nasal RNA Spray

Designer RNA molecules delivered through the nose show early promise for treating West Nile fever, trials in mice show. No effective therapies exist for the illness caused by a mosquito-borne virus, which can invade the […]

Wildlife

Is Solenodon going extinct?

Photo: JOEL SARTORE/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO ARK Owing to a potential of disappearance ofHispaniola Solenodon from the globe, scientists are trying to preserve the genome to secure its existence.   A study recently published in Biorxiv, […]

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