While it is well known that starfish, zebrafish and salamanders can re-grow damaged limbs, scientists understand very little about the regenerative capabilities of mammals. Now, researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine report on the regenerative...
Amidst the extraordinarily dense network of pathways in a mammal lung is a common destination. There, any road leads to a cul-de-sac of sorts called the pulmonary acinus. This place looks like a bunch of grapes attached to a stem (acinus means "berry" in Latin). Scientists have struggled to...
Hello everyone. I'd like a medium sized (5 to 20lbs) that I can introduce to my property for hunting reasons. I live on a caribbean island, and like many of these islands, the mammal fauna is very limited. The only native mammals are 9 bat species, a giant rice rat (now probably extinct) and an...