VENUS THE TWO FACE C@

VENUS THE TWO FACE C@

VENUS THE TWO FACE CAT • VENUS²FACE

Famous feline may have different DNA on each side of her body.

Venus the two-faced cat is currently the most famous feline on the planet.

The tortoiseshell cat has her own Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/VenusTheAmazingChimeraCat/ ) page and a YouTube video ( https://youtu.be/k38bfE3ubrs ) that’s been viewed over a million times, and appeared on the Today Show.

One look at this cat and you can understand why: One half is solid black with a green eye—the other half has typical orange tabby stripes and a blue eye.

How does a cat end up looking like that? Leslie Lyons ( http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/lalyons/ ), a professor at the University of California, Davis, who studies the genetics of domestic cats said she’s never seen a cat exactly like Venus.

“She is extremely, extremely rare,” Lyons said. “But you can explain it and you can understand it.”

National Geographic: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120831-venus-two-faced-cat-genetics-animals-science/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VenusTheAmazingChimeraCat/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/VenusMommy

Twitter: https://twitter.com/VenusTwoFaceCat

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/venustwofacecat/

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/VenusMommy

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DARTH G8R ( darth gator /därthʹ ɡāʹdər/ )

DARTH G8R ( /därthʹ ɡāʹdər/ )

DARTH G8R ( darth gator /därthʹ ɡāʹdər/ )

Once a heroic Alli Gator, Darth G8R was seduced by the dark side of the Pond, became a Swamp Lord, and led the Evilglade’s eradication of the Alligator Order. He remained in service of the Evilglade Emperor -- the vile Darth Crocodilious -- for decades, enforcing his Master’s will and seeking to crush the fledgling Reptile Alliance. But there was still good in him…

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G8R ( gator /ˈɡādər/ )

Gator is another word for alligator. An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. The two living species are the American alligator (A. mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator (A. sinensis). In addition, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains.

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HEARTIMALS HIGGS BISON

HEARTIMALS® HIGGS BISON

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'Higgs Bison' Is The Missing Link In European Bison Ancestral Tree

For a decade, people who study Europe's bison population have been baffled by a genetic mystery. The animals, which are a protected species (http://www.bison-ebcc.eu/), seemed to have appeared out of thin air about 11,000 years ago.

"There's something very fishy in the history of European bovids," says Alan Cooper of the University of Adelaide, one of the lead authors of a paper (http://www.nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/NCOMMS13158) published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.

Before 11,000 years ago, all the bison in Europe were thought to be of a variety called steppe bison, which ranged all the way across what is now Russia into Alaska and the North American mainland during the last Ice Age.

But shortly after the steppe bison disappeared from the fossil record, the European bison suddenly appears. And even stranger, its mitochondrial DNA (which is only inherited from the maternal side) shows the new species is very closely related to cows.

"That was misleading for a long time," Cooper says in a video about the new research (https://youtu.be/2IYEDP3wO5k). "There were these two different species that did not overlap." The key to how the cow genes ended up in modern bison was contained inside bone fragments from ancient bison found in caves across Europe, including the famous Lascaux cave in France.

The team ground up bone fragments and sequenced the full DNA, only to find a surprising answer to the mystery.

About 120,000 years ago, ancient cows and steppe bison had created a hybrid species that survived for thousands of years, which Cooper says is rare.

Cooper and his colleagues jokingly called the new hybrid animal the "Higgs bison," a reference to the famed particle physics discovery (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/10/08/230383383/peter-higgs-of-boson-fame-shares-nobel-prize-in-physics).

But having discovered the missing link in European bison ancestry, the researchers had another question: What did the animal look like?

Without any skulls to help reconstruct the animal's body shape, Cooper's co-author, Julien Soubrier, turned to experts on European cave art, hoping they could help.

"We called them and explained the results we had," says Soubrier. "Their reaction was, 'Oh finally!' The cave men could not have painted all these drawings with only one [bison] model. ... There were clearly two morphologies in the drawings."

The two morphologies, or body shapes, represented the steppe bison and the newly discovered ancestor of modern European bison.

Soubrier, Cooper and other researchers teamed up with multiple cave art experts from across Europe, and included examples of cave drawings of both the older steppe bison and the newer cow-like bison in their paper.

"The details are quite remarkable," Soubrier says of the ancient drawings, which date back as far as 20,000 years ago. "They were not messing around."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/18/498281083/higgs-bison-is-the-missing-link-in-european-bison-ancestral-tree

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サカナクション SAKANACTION

サカナクション SAKANACTION

SAKANACTION : TRIBUTE TO MY FAVORITE JAPANESE BAND

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Sakanaction (サカナクション), are a Japanese rock band from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Their music is a fusion of alternative rock, electronic, pop, and new wave styles, and is thus difficult to classify under one category. The band consists of five members: Ichiro Yamaguchi, Motoharu Iwadera, Ami Kusakari, Emi Okazaki, and Keiichi Ejima.

The name Sakanaction is a portmanteau of "sakana" ("fish") and "action". In the band's own words, their name reflects a wish to act quickly and lightly, like fish in the water, without fearing changes in the music scene. They are enjoying increasing popularity, having hit mainstream success with their records consistently achieving positions within the Top 10 on Japan's Oricon charts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakanaction

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Sakanaction Official Website: http://sakanaction.jp/

NF (Night Fishing): http://nf.sakanaction.jp/

Twitter: sakanaction https://twitter.com/sakanaction

NF Twitter: http://twitter.com/NIGHTFISHING_NF

江島啓一 (Keiichi Ejima) Twitter: http://twitter.com/EJIMANBOO

山口一郎 (Ichiro Yamaguchi) Twitter: http://twitter.com/SAKANAICHIRO

サカナクションFacebookページ: https://www.facebook.com/Sakanaction.official

サカナクションOfficial LINE: http://line.naver.jp/ti/p/@sakanaction

Sakanaction Instagram: https://instagram.com/sakanaction_jp/

NF Instagram: http://instagram.com/sakanaction_NF

岩寺基晴 (Motoharu Iwadera) Instagram: http://instagram.com/motoharuiwadera/

江島啓一 (Keiichi Ejima) Instagram: http://instagram.com/ejima_keiichi/

山口一郎 (Ichiro Yamaguchi) Instagram: http://instagram.com/ichiroyamaguchi/