Word: opossums
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...year, the future UCLA professor smuggled a flying squirrel and an opossum into his dorm room, Diamond’s son Joshua said in a recent interview...
...mammals experience REM, but some have more than others. It appears the less mature a species is at birth, the more REM it has. Assuming for a moment that REM equals dreaming, the opossum and armadillo are among the most prolific dreamers, while dolphins do very little of it; humans are in the middle. Research suggests our dreams become more complex as our mental abilities develop. The dreams of very small children don't just seem prosaic because tikes lack the eloquence to bring them to life in the retelling-they really are prosaic. Two-thirds of dreams are almost...
...dogs have about 19,300 genes. Human beings have about 22,000 genes. Broad Institute researchers are currently working to map an increasing number of mammal genomes, according to Lindblad-Toh. “We are sequencing eight, soon will be sixteen, different mammals at lower coverage, including the opossum,” she said. The Broad Institute, a joint venture of Harvard and MIT founded in 2003, received an additional $100 million in funding from philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad earlier this month...
...embankment. After piling dried leaves and twigs in front of the burrow, he digs out a box of matches and sets the kindling alight, producing a thick cloud of white smoke. If the pangolin, a scaly anteater that looks like a cross between an armadillo and an opossum, isn't smoked out of its lair soon, Jema'ah (who like most Indonesians goes by one name) will set off again through the forest, clutching a shopping list of animals that he has been instructed to seek out by a dealer in illegal wildlife from the coastal town of Bengkulu...
...intuition tells me that Dartmouth won’t pull out of its 16-game opossum-like “asleep at home, dead on the road” losing streak and upset the Tigers tomorrow night. And though I can see the emotions of senior night and Dave Faucher’s last game as the Big Green’s coach sparking some emotional play to at least keep the game close, such a run will only last for the first five to ten minutes...