rats
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The ‘Shower Rat’ Is Very Obviously Not Showering
It’s very easy to look at an animal mimicking a human-like behaviour and think, “Wow! That animal is doing a human thing! It looks so cute and happy.” (Because humans are so cute and happy, right?) That is almost never the case. If an animal looks weird, it probably is weird – and not in…
![Scientists Transplanted A Rat Testicle Onto Another Rat’s Neck [WARNING: Graphic]](https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/06/wuqaix5jt30ve6szoa34.jpg?quality=75&w=400&h=225&crop=1)
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Ridiculous Rat-Grown Mouse Organ Transplant Cures Diabetic Mice
It’s a beautiful tale of graciousness and sacrifice. Hopeless, drug-addled mice, suddenly stricken with diabetes, are offered a cure at the mercy of their all-knowing scientist overlords. Their rat-tailed comrades miraculously grew functioning mouse pancreases and the higher power, blessed be, healed the mice with the bounty. Amen!
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Movie Review: Morgan Spurlock’s Rats Is One Of The Grossest Films We’ve Ever Seen
Director Morgan Spurlock has made documentaries about McDonalds, Comic-Con, One Direction and Osama Bin Laden. That’s a wide variety of work and yet you’d never expect him to make a true genre film. His new documentary, Rats, is exactly that. It was made with one singular thought: to gross you out using nothing but our…
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Rat Brains Are Organised Like The Internet
Mammalian brains are incredibly dense with connections: with present technology, just building a computer that can replicate one per cent of a human’s brain technology requires the power of 250,000 desktop PCs. But, thanks to one new scientific paper, we now at least know how the synpases are organised.