Zoology Essays

Here I will be publishing some of the essays on various biological, mostly zoological, subjects that I've written for school, competitions, the hell of it etc. with the occasional appearances of extinct Proboscideans, like Amebelodon. FEEL FREE TO CORRECT MISTAKES!

Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Ancient Proboscideans – Extinct Elephants and their kindred.

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Proboscidea is the order of mammals with trunks, and their more primitive relatives with “proto-trunks”. Today the only living ...

Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Rabies: the 11,000 base pairs that can ruin the brain

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Lyssavirus On the 16 th October 2004, a teenage girl was brought to the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and tested positive f...

Friday, 29 August 2014

Notes on Objects: Longhorn Beetle and Ammonite

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I volunteer as an object-handler at Manchester Museum (I am there on Wednesdays from 11am to 1 pm, at the table near Nature's Library), ...

Saturday, 9 August 2014

The evolution of the oocyte

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A human egg cell, the corona radiata is on the outer surface, the zona pellucida is the clear ring behind it. Oocyte is the...

Thursday, 7 August 2014

Mammoths: Ice Age Giants Exhibition

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The preserved body of Lyuba from http://designyoutrust.com/2012/04/baby-mammoth-lyuba-goes-on-display/ originally from Reuters. On th...

Thursday, 19 June 2014

Crystal Eyes: Trilobite Optics

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Asaphus expansus (my image) I must give a great credit to Richard Fortey's Trilobite! Any book about paleontology which e...

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Laura Cooper: Manchester, Cheshire, United Kingdom; I'm a 17 year old 6th form student in the UK. I like zoology, paleontology, English literature, virology and ethical philosophy.

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