fordac's Blog

Category Amazing

November 04, 2008

Japanese Scientists have successfully cloned a mouse which has be frozen for 16 years. taking a step in the long impossible dream of bringing back extinct animals such as mammoths.

Scientists at the government-backed research institute Riken used the dead cell of a mouse that had been preserved at minus minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit -- a temperature similar to frozen ground.

The scientists hope that the first-of-a-kind research will pave the way to restore extinct animals such as the mammoth.

The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States.

Source: ABCnews

Frozen, Mouse, cloned, mammoth, extinct, japanese, scientist, research

5 comments | Email It | Add to Favorites | Category: Amazing

Unicorn of Africa Photographed

September 12, 2008

The okapi, a creature so strange and rare it was once thought to be a unicorn, has been photographed for the first time in the wild.

The images were captured by a motion-triggered camera in Virunga National Park, deep in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Some had feared that the okapi -- a close relative of the giraffe, though mottled with zebra-like stripes -- had been driven extinct by habitat loss and human predation during the decade-long central African civil war.

Images: Zoological Society of London

Unicorn, of, Africa, Photographed, Zoological, Society, London, Virunga, National, Park

8 comments | Email It | Add to Favorites | Category: Amazing

Fantasy Garden - Really Amazing and Beautiful

June 01, 2008

Sorry, but the blog post could not be located.

Fantasy, Garden, -, Really, Amazing, and, Beautiful

1 comments | Email It | Add to Favorites | Category: Amazing

It's a bird? Its a plane? No its FLOGOS

April 19, 2008

Sorry, but the blog post could not be located.

It's, a, bird?, Its, plane?, No, its, FLOGOS, floating, bubbles, helium, hours, minutes

10 comments | Email It | Add to Favorites | Category: Amazing

World's Largest Observation Wheel -Singapore Flyer

April 17, 2008

The "Singapore Flyer", the country's newest observation wheel, opened on Tuesday and is set to rival the London Eye.

The Singapore Flyer stands at around 165 meters tall, and bills itself as the world's largest giant observation wheel. The London Eye is slightly lower, at around 135 meters. The Singapore Flyer boasts of around 28-capsules each capable of carrying 28 people.

Officials say the wheel is completely different from the London Eye which is built on a three-dimensional structure. Passengers can expect pay 22 US dollars for a 30-minute ride on the new wheel.

Source: CCTV