Not exact matches
Here are a few of the interesting genomes scientists have sequenced, starting
with one of the most recent: the
naked mole rat.
Pigeons, sea turtles, chickens,
naked mole rats and perhaps even cattle can detect the Earth's magnetic field, sometimes
with astonishing accuracy
Rochelle Buffenstein, a physiologist who is now at the University of Texas Health Science Center, began studying
naked mole rats in 1980 and took a colony
with her when she moved from South Africa to the United States in 1997.
David Grimm — online news editor for Science — talks
with Sarah Crespi about the chance a
naked mole rat could die at any one moment.
In 2008, the studies led to the finding that
naked mole rats didn't feel pain when they came into contact
with acid and didn't get more sensitive to heat or touch when injured, like we and other mammals do.
Thanks to this less efficient, albeit still functioning, receptor, the
naked mole rat still winds up
with an adequate nervous system, but
with fewer pain nerve cells.
Now there is good evidence that many species — including pigeons, sea turtles, chickens,
naked mole rats and possibly cattle — can detect the Earth's geomagnetic field, sometimes
with astonishing accuracy.
Given it depicts the game protagonist valiantly and triumphantly striking down all enemies in his path and not, say... getting felled by a
naked mole rat dropping on his head, I think there's case to file a false advertising complaint
with the Better Business Bureau over this trailer.
Leading such an extreme subterranean life has bestowed
naked mole -
rats with some pretty impressive talents.