Kids did some battle posters on the day before spring break started. We are off next week but we will crown our champions when we get back. I may or may not have brought all of the brackets home to score them. #2024MMM#SpringBreak
#2024MMM FINAL ROAR Winners: Giant Squid and Great White Shark!!! Join us on Wednesday, April 3rd at 8pm EST for the CHAMPIONSHIP!!!The last MMM battle of 2024!
#2024MMMnovivirtual 6th graders are having a fantastic time learning about different organisms and habitats during March Mammal Madness 2024! Here is some of their digital art to cheer on the champions they picked
April 3, 2024 was our last new puzzle (Puzzle 82). You can play previous puzzles in our archives. animordle.com will go offline on May 1st until next year's March Mammal Madness. See you later, alligator! #2024MMM
Finding mates in the deep sea is hard. Male giant squids stick sperm-carrying structures in the female body, which are retained for life. Murai et al used microsatellites to determine the paternity of various spermangia in a female's body #2024MMM doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.…
We still have a lot to learn about Sperm Whales, which aren’t the easiest critters to sample from. Researchers studied RNA from skin to identify which immune system genes exist in Sperm Whales, finding over 5000 immune-related transcripts. #2024MMM#RIP mdpi.com/2073-4425/12/2…
Hope everyone has been enjoying #2024MMM ! Prof. Katie Hinde invited me to make an updated phylogeny poster of *every* life form that has ever competed in March Mammal Madness! Over 600 species have been in MMM so far. Can you find your favorite? keep.lib.asu.edu/items/191966
#RIP Kraken. During #2024MMM a theme with the giant squid is that metagenomic analyses are powerful tools to understand the life history of deep sea creatures and other difficult to observe spp. KRAKEN is a freely available metagenomic classification tool doi.org/10.1186/gb-201…
