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How Male Octopus Avoid Being Cannibalised by Female  

Researchers have discovered that some male blue-lined octopuses have evolved a novel defence mechanism to avoid being cannibalised by the hungry females during reproduction....

Multiple Dinosaur Trackways Discovered in Oxfordshire

Multiple trackways with about 200 dinosaur footprints have been discovered on a quarry floor in Oxfordshire. These dates to the Middle Jurassic Period (around...

De-extinction and Species preservation: New milestones for resurrection of Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger)

The thylacine de-extinction project announced in 2022 has achieved new milestones in generation of the highest quality ancient genome, marsupial genome editing and new...

2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of “microRNA and new Principle of Gene regulation”

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and...

Fossils of Ancient Chromosomes with intact 3D Structure of Extinct Woolly Mammoth  

Fossils of ancient chromosomes with intact three-dimensional structure belonging to extinct woolly mammoth have been discovered from 52,000 old sample preserved in Siberian permafrost....

Fork Fern Tmesipteris Oblanceolata has The Largest Genome on Earth  

Tmesipteris oblanceolata , a type of fork fern native to New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific has been found to have the genome size of...

German Cockroach Originated in India or Myanmar  

The German cockroach (Blattella germanica) is world’s most common cockroach pest found in human households worldwide. These insects have an affinity for human dwellings...

A Mouse can Sense the World Using Regenerated Neurons from Another Species  

Interspecies Blastocyst Complementation (IBC) (i.e., complementation by microinjecting stem cells of other species into blastocyst-stage embryos) successfully generated rat forebrain tissue in mice which...

Discovery of Nitrogen-Fixing Cell-organelle Nitroplast in a Eukaryotic Algae   

Biosynthesis of proteins and nucleic acid require nitrogen however atmospheric nitrogen is not available to eukaryotes for organic synthesis. Only few prokaryotes (such as...

Pleurobranchaea britannica: A new species of Sea slug discovered in UK waters 

A new species of sea slug, named Pleurobranchaea britannica, has been discovered in the waters off the southwest coast of England. This is the...

Paride: A novel Virus (Bacteriophage) that fights Antibiotic-tolerant Dormant bacteria  

Bacterial dormancy is survival strategy in response to stressful exposure to antibiotics taken by a patient for treatment. The dormant cells become tolerant to...

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