A mouse with arthritis runs close to $200; two pairs of epileptic mice can cost 10 times that. You want three blind mice? That'll run you about $250. And for your own custom mouse, with the genetic modification of your choosing, expect to pay as much as $100,000.
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Compared to such mice, maybe this Laotian rock rat is currently not so expensive yet as it was was sold at the market as tasty morsels. But for scienctists, this rat is invaluable because it rises from the dead--a living fossil! The animal deemed to extinct more than 11,000,000 years ago is now found alive in Laos, a very undeveloped Southeast country.
Scientists have no idea what the animal has been doing for the past 11 million years, or exactly where or how it lives today. The only specimens were found dead, in a market in Laos, destined to be somebody's dinner until two conservation biologists did a routine survey of the animals available for sale.
So far, no one has mounted a scientific expedition to hunt for the squirrel-like rodent, Dr. Dawson, a paleontologist who examined the rodent, and along with colleagues from France and China, said. "If you are interested in rodents, it is really exciting. If you aren't . . ."
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Just days ago scientists found a Furry Lobster like bizarre looking crustacean.
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Compared to such mice, maybe this Laotian rock rat is currently not so expensive yet as it was was sold at the market as tasty morsels. But for scienctists, this rat is invaluable because it rises from the dead--a living fossil! The animal deemed to extinct more than 11,000,000 years ago is now found alive in Laos, a very undeveloped Southeast country.
Scientists have no idea what the animal has been doing for the past 11 million years, or exactly where or how it lives today. The only specimens were found dead, in a market in Laos, destined to be somebody's dinner until two conservation biologists did a routine survey of the animals available for sale.
So far, no one has mounted a scientific expedition to hunt for the squirrel-like rodent, Dr. Dawson, a paleontologist who examined the rodent, and along with colleagues from France and China, said. "If you are interested in rodents, it is really exciting. If you aren't . . ."
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Just days ago scientists found a Furry Lobster like bizarre looking crustacean.
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