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Treatment helps paralyzed rats walk Combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and therapy restores lost connections Web edition : Thursday, May 31st, 2012 Scientists have trained paralyzed rats to walk, run and even climb stairs. Weeks of rigorous practice coupled with an electrochemical spine-stimulating regimen allowed the animals to overcome devastating spinal cord injuries that immobilized their rear legs, Swiss scientists report in the June 1 Science.

If you were to trace human evolution backward in time and space, you'd eventually end up in Africa. There, millions of years ago, animal species evolved to walk upright on two legs and spend more of their lives on the ground than in the trees.

Night lights may foster depression Chronic dim light triggers temporary brain changes in animals Psychiatrists sometimes prescribe light therapy to treat a form of depression in people who get too little morning sun. But too much light at other times may actually trigger such mood disorders.

this is an article about how performing experiments on mice help understand why migraines effect women more. they have found that by injecting the mice with a certain hormone found commonly in women, the mice have showed the same behaviors as women do who have severe migraines. ultimately this experiment will help doctors/ scientist further understand women and migraines

This video talks about how red eyed frogs stand their grounds. How they shake their butts in order to scare off their opponents, It is a way that they communicate with one another. They tend to do it to show they are marking their spots

this video is about lizards. it presents reliable information that viewers may not have known about these lizards.

ScienceDaily (July 11, 2011) — One in 10 species could face extinction by the year 2100 if current climate change impacts continue. This is the result of University of Exeter research, examining studies on the effects of recent climate change on plant and animal species and comparing this with predictions of future declines.