The short-tailed shrew differs from other Adirondack shrews in having a blunter snout, a shorter tail that is less than 25% of the total length, a heavier more cylindrical body, and fleshy feet. The ...

Grizzled gray upperparts, a blackish band on each side of the muzzle, and a black-tipped tail are some of the characters by which the gray fox differs from the red fox. Other differences include ...

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Since John Harkness and Joseph Wagner, two laboratory animal veterinarians, published the first book on exotic pet medicine in 1977 (ref. 1), there has been an exponential increase in the number ...

With its rat-like tail and hairless ears, the humble opossum doesn’t get a lot of respect. But North America’s only native marsupial, or pouched animal, plays a valuable role in nature.

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The poly-A tail is a long chain of adenine nucleotides that is added to a messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule during RNA processing to increase the stability of the molecule. Immediately after a gene in ...

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