May 19, 2006
The Songs of Mice, the Narwhal's Tusk: Modern Scientific Mysteries
Given all that biologists know about living creatures, we often assume that little remains to be discovered. Yet some surprising recent research cautions us that there is more to many species than has yet met the eye — or the ear.
Consider the high-pitched squeaks of mice, a well-studied species if ever there was one. Years of careful genetic, molecular, and behavioral work have made mice one of the animal species most familiar to human scientists. Of course mice squeak. Yet
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