Not evolution, but adaption?
They are, after all, still dogs.
And what a worthless article - says absolutely nothing of any significance.
I don’t know, Jake, but that ain’t no Chihuahua!
Or did the dogs of “The View” visit there?
Outdoorsmen are suddenly disappearing. Picture 15 foot tall pit bulls that have developed a taste for human flesh.
According to the movie “A Boy and His Dog” part of the adaptation is telepathy with a human and the ability to locate human females.
Well? What are the ‘strange mutations’ of the dogs.
I was hoping to see photos of them, or at very least, read a detailed description.
Are we talking three headed dogs, as with Greek mythology?
Cerberus was the three headed dog who guarded the gates of Hades.
Maybe the second half of the article is missing.
* (Exxon/Mobil, SUNOCO, and Citgo, respectively)
I call BS on that. If you want to mutate seeds using radiation no need to go to space as a commercial method. More like USAID crony narrative supporting grant fodder. J school business and science competence, cliche’ ridden prose.
Quick call Peter Parker! There are spiders there he needs to look at!
PM publishes a lot of anti-scientific gibberish like this. It was once naively thought that mutations could magically produce complex systems such as are ubiquitous in biology, but at best all we see are fluke cases where some kind of damage has a beneficial side effect in certain circumstances. (For example, antibiotic resistance arising because certain cellular pathways that the antibiotic uses are shut down by damage to regulatory switches. If there are alternate pathways the cell can use to survive this provides a benefit when the antibiotic is present, but the damage is just that, damage impairing a pre-existing functional system.)
LOL!
One paragraph in the article says this:
“Do they have mutations that they’ve acquired that allow them to live and breed successfully in this region?” co-author Elaine Ostrander, a dog genomics expert at the National Human Genome Research Institute, told The New York Times. “What challenges do they face and how have they coped genetically?”
Well, gee, Darren Orf, isn’t that your job to explain in YOUR article?
They could just study Cali progressives if they want to look at mutants.
This would be similar to Godzilla, who was a mutant created by all the nuclear tests in the Pacific and then destroyed Tokyo.
The fact that inbreeding of the populations is difficult to “suss out” as they said...indicates this will be a very low powered study. What they need to do is completely sequence every, I mean every, gene. Compare that to an animal outside the breeding zones total genes in that study animal, and also check the epigenetic apparatus in both animals. Factor out mutagenic sunlight, cosmic rays, background ground radiation, chemicals, and foods.
Like I say, a very very, low powered study.
Chernobyl COULD HAVE BEEN a disaster, but IT WASN’T!
The HYPE over Chernobyl has been occurring ever since the LOCAL event.
Anti-Nukers just keep lying about the effects of Chernobyl.
They keep looking but all they can find is that green frogs have adapted and become black frogs.
“residents and their pets have begun moving back into Chernobyl City” Some people never left the area. They are all just fine.
It was a local event, localized at the plant itself.
They do tours there.
"Who's a good boy?"