A new breed of “super rat” with DNA that makes them resistant to poison and subsequently almost impossible to kill are evolving in the British corners, experts have warned. According to Professor Robert Smith at the University of Huddersfield, genetic mutations have led rats across the country to develop protection against standard toxins. If such rats or "super rats" as they are being called are not stopped from multiplying then there is a risk of another bubonic plague just like the one that caused The Black Death in Europe in 1340s.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Britain to be hit by bubonic plague soon?
A new breed of “super rat” with DNA that makes them resistant to poison and subsequently almost impossible to kill are evolving in the British corners, experts have warned. According to Professor Robert Smith at the University of Huddersfield, genetic mutations have led rats across the country to develop protection against standard toxins. If such rats or "super rats" as they are being called are not stopped from multiplying then there is a risk of another bubonic plague just like the one that caused The Black Death in Europe in 1340s.
Rivers on Mars sometime back?
A new study has indicated that rivers might have flowed recently on Mars. The study has found some serious valleys carved by rivers within the last billion years, which is much sooner than most similar findings. That’s good news for biologists, as water is a key to life as we know it, and the more recently there was liquid water on Mars, the greater the chances for life to have arisen and endured.
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