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• Do Mammoths Still Exist? Aren’t they Extinct?

  In IDiscover / By admin / 9 December 2011 / 0 comments

  

  Scientists from Russia and Japan are undertaking a Jurassic Park-style experiment in an effort to bring the woolly mammoth out of extinction. The scientists claim that a thigh bone found in August contains remarkably well-preserved marrow cells, which could form the starting point of the experiment. The team claim that the cloning could be complete...

   

• Why Are Flamingos Pink?

  In IDiscover / By admin / 20 October 2010 / 0 comments

  

  Nearly everyone knows what flamingos look like —pink birds with long legs. You can see them at just about every zoo. You can find them in storybooks. Alice uses flamingos as croquet mallets in Through the Looking-Glass (by Lewis Carroll). Images of flamingos, standing under palm trees, appear in paperweights and snow globes. Plastic flamingos...