The woolly mammoth, which became extinct 10,000 years ago, will now be brought back to life from a cloned bone marrow within five years, scientists have claimed. Scientists from Russia's Sakha republic's mammoth museum and Japan's Kinki University will launch a joint research in 2012 in a bid to recreate the giant animal, the Daily Mail reported citing Kyodo News. The researchers say it may be possible to clone a woolly mammoth after they found a well-preserved bone marrow in a thigh bone recovered in Siberia. What i think about this is that if they can clone a mammoth just by using a bone than they could clone almost anything know.
Current fishing trends are making iconic marine predators such as sharks, tuna, swordfish and marlin increasingly rare, Canadian researchers say. Half of the North Atlantic and North Pacific waters under national jurisdiction have experienced a 90 percent decrease in the populations of top predators since the 1950s, researchers from the University of British Columbia report in the journal Marine Ecological Progress Series. Exploitation of marine predators started in coastal areas of northern countries, and then expanded to the high seas and to the southern hemisphere, they said. So in the future these problems can truly affect the growth of fish in those areas that are bieng affected.
Birds intelligence in fact rivals that of apes who, along with crows, are able to do tasks that three and four-year-old children have difficulty with. The Aesop’s fable experiment was designed to see if corvids,the family of birds that includes crows, jays, ravens and jackdaws, have causal reasoning the awareness that one event leads to another. According to the results they did and they also showed that they were good tool users. What is amazing about this is that these birds are not natural users of tools in the wild, so this is not a skill that natural selection has crafted over the centuries. Yet another experiment has shown that birds have what is called ‘theory of mind’ in short, the ability to see the world from another bird’s point of view. All this experiments are showing more and more how these birds can actualy be put on the top of the list when it comes to smart animals.
Current fishing trends are making iconic marine predators such as sharks, tuna, swordfish and marlin increasingly rare, Canadian researchers say. Half of the North Atlantic and North Pacific waters under national jurisdiction have experienced a 90 percent decrease in the populations of top predators since the 1950s, researchers from the University of British Columbia report in the journal Marine Ecological Progress Series. Exploitation of marine predators started in coastal areas of northern countries, and then expanded to the high seas and to the southern hemisphere, they said. So in the future these problems can truly affect the growth of fish in those areas that are bieng affected.