This tiny toad is the world’s first Puerto Rican crested toad hatched
from in-vitro fertilization (IVF) utilizing frozen semen collected from
the wild.
The Fort Worth Zoo and its partners from Mississippi
State University came together at the Fort Worth Zoo this summer to
continue their efforts with assisted reproduction technology (ART) for
critically endangered amphibians. For the first time ever, they were
able to successfully conduct IVF using the eggs from two Zoo females and
frozen semen from six wild males. To celebrate this conservation
success, the first egg to be fertilized and hatched has been named Olaf!
The top 400 richest people in this country have a combined wealth of 2.7 trillion dollars. You have to have more than 2 billion to be on this list. Know how many actors are on there? Oprah, who is not on there for her acting salary.
We’re attacking the wrong people. Why aren’t we calling out the Waltons? The Kochs? The owners of Google? The Bezos family?
A little while later in the briefing, Governor Cuomo returned to the subject because he wanted to point out that New York State sends $116 billion more to the federal pot than they take out; while Moscow Mitch McConnell’s home state of Kentucky takes out $148 billion more from the federal pot than they put in.
Nestled
deep among the woods of Middlebury lies an abandoned village. This isn’t your
average abandoned village, however, as it consists of crumbling doll-sized
houses. Aptly named Little People Village, legend says a local man was terrorized
by fairies who insisted that he was living on their land. In an attempt to
alleviate their threats, he built a tiny village for the pixies. As they grew
in population, they expected more and more from the exhausted man. Driven to
the brink of insanity, the man fled and abandoned the tiny village. Another legend is a bit more grim, and says that the man committed suicide. Anybody
that visits can see that a lot of detail went into the tiny village, with
intricate pathways between each building and stairs inside the petite homes.
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