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The invincible tardigrade — already a weird animal — is full of DNA stolen from bacteria
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| November 25 at 10:39 AM
| Rachel Feltman
Posted on 11/25/2015 9:32:36 PM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
11/25/2015 9:32:36 PM PST
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
look it’s Michael Moore’s as a baby... aww how cute
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posted on
11/25/2015 9:40:48 PM PST
by
tophat9000
(King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriots are in rebellion... teach him why)
To: BenLurkin
Saw this article in the news yesterday.
These creatures have Amazing survival capabilities, like no other living thing.
These Extremophiles are technically capable of living forever if allowed to go thru regular dormancy cycles.
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posted on
11/25/2015 9:45:55 PM PST
by
MarchonDC09122009
(When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
To: Darksheare; BenLurkin; Salamander
And the
BLatting OG says:
"Mommy?!?"
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posted on
11/25/2015 9:58:42 PM PST
by
shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/25/2015 10:04:30 PM PST
by
Ken H
To: Ken H
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posted on
11/25/2015 10:09:03 PM PST
by
Ken H
To: tophat9000
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posted on
11/25/2015 10:11:13 PM PST
by
Politicalkiddo
("We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." Abigail Adams)
To: Ken H
Somehow I imagined Cthulhu to be more intimidating.
(and I find it somewhat frightening that Cthulhu is in the spell checker word list)
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posted on
11/25/2015 10:18:58 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(CNBC = Clowns Neutered By Cruz)
To: BenLurkin
[[Through a process called horizontal gene transfer, any organism can theoretically swap genes with another.]]
Which only, according to my understanding, happens between the same kinds of species- not between unrelated species kinds because unrelated species kinds have several layers of protectiosn which prevent such horizontal transfers whereas related species kinds have the necessary info to receive and utilize dna from their own kind
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posted on
11/25/2015 10:24:37 PM PST
by
Bob434
To: Ken H; BenLurkin
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posted on
11/25/2015 10:35:22 PM PST
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled-...by liars who passing refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: KarlInOhio
"Somehow I imagined Cthulhu to be more intimidating." Cthulhu is never quite the same Demonic Old One after he has his snack...
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posted on
11/25/2015 10:39:04 PM PST
by
shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/25/2015 11:07:54 PM PST
by
80skid
To: BenLurkin
On the shelves in time for Christmas.
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posted on
11/25/2015 11:34:09 PM PST
by
kanawa
To: Covenantor
OMG...is that a real video of one?
How stinking *cute*!
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posted on
11/26/2015 1:35:18 AM PST
by
Salamander
(My soul's on fire...)
To: BenLurkin
I've seen pics of these little fellas before - they look like a cross between a caterpillar and an overstuffed sofa. Too bad they're so small. I bet they'd make a great domestic pet. Bet those claws would give a cat a run for it's money on the furniture, though.
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posted on
11/26/2015 1:43:34 AM PST
by
Viking2002
(The Avatar is back by popular request.)
To: Viking2002
They remind me of manatees.
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posted on
11/26/2015 2:29:47 AM PST
by
Ken H
To: BenLurkin
Those grasping claws are a dead giveaway. This is the ancestral creature from which is descended the modern Gimmedat. A clearer proof of devolution would be hard to imagine.
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posted on
11/26/2015 3:17:06 AM PST
by
sphinx
To: BenLurkin
Looks like a love seat from Ikea.
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posted on
11/26/2015 3:35:39 AM PST
by
XEHRpa
To: Bob434
From the article;
All told, the little water bears have about 6,000 genes that come from outside sources, mainly bacteria. Plants, fungi, and Archaea also made appearances in the tardigrade genome.
Unless bacteria, plants, fungi and tardigrade are all the " same kinds of species" then this would appear to be something new mixing animal, plant, bacteria and fungi. Archaea are already a strange lot and are themselves extremophiles.
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posted on
11/26/2015 6:57:28 AM PST
by
SunTzuWu
To: Salamander
Real video.
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posted on
11/26/2015 8:46:56 AM PST
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled-...by liars who passing refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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