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1 day ago

3,000-year-old royal menagerie found in China

Shang Dynasty royal mausoleum at Yin Ruins contains earliest known collection of captive-bred wild animals in China, evidenced by bronze bells and standardized sacrificial pits.
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fromNature
1 month ago

Astrocyte CCN1 stabilizes neural circuits in the adult brain - Nature

Rats and mice were maintained under controlled housing and used in genetically defined mouse lines, including astrocyte-Ribotag and tamoxifen-inducible Ccn1 conditional knockouts, with blinded analysis.
fromLos Angeles Times
6 months ago

Once there were only 22 condors left on Earth; the L.A. Zoo just hatched 10 chicks

"This year's chicks will eventually help increase the genetic diversity of the wild population of condors," Denise Verret, chief executive and director of the Los Angeles Zoo, said in a news release.
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