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Animal Adaptation: Is it Crayfish or Crawdad?

What do crayfish and the metal mercury tell us about clean water? What do animal adaptations tell us about their environment. Meet a scientist who studies crayfish and hopes they will show him how ...
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17 Animal Adaptations That Defy Nature’s Challenges

The Earth is full of remarkable species, and the wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) is certainly one of them. This small critter is the only amphibian on the planet that lives north of the Arctic ...
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Animal Adaptation: It's Artificial

Why are there big dogs like Great Danes and small dogs like Toy Poodles? Find out! Not all animal adaptations are because of a natural process. We have hundreds of different breeds of dogs because of ...
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Andrew Hess: Animal health, adaptation, and grazing environment

Andrew Hess, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in interdepartmental genetics (animal breeding and genetics, with a statistics minor) from Iowa State University in 2016. He is an assistant professor of ...