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Wildlife experts only found huge mammal after following birds of prey scavenging on carcass
Brazilian wildlife experts have been left baffled after discovering a dead humpback whale in the Amazon rainforest.
The 10-ton mammal was found in the jungle undergrowth on the island of Marajo, which sits at the mouth of the Amazon River.
Although scientists presume the enormous creature was hurled onshore during a storm, they do not understand how it came so far inland or why it was swimming off the coast in the first place.
Officials from Para state’s health, sanitation and environment department said they only found the 11m-long whale after following the birds of prey which were scavenging on its huge carcass.
The remains were deposited in such a remote part of the mangrove swamp in the Amazonian delta that it took two trips for the wildlife experts to reach the site.
Marine specialists from the Bicho D’agua Institute, a conservation group based on Marajo, are part of the team examining the whale, which is thought to have died several days before it was found.
This is a chameleon with a hox gene mutation.
If you look carefully at her ribs, you’ll notice that some of them are loops.
Hox genes are a group of genes that control the segmentation of the body. They make sure that repeating elements of the body, such as the vertebrae, and the ribs develop correctly.
Mistakes in the way hox genes are activated cause mistakes in the formation of these repeating elements in the skeleton. They start repeating too often, or not enough, or they dont separate correctly, like in this girl.
This chameleon had one such condition. She died of an unrelated infection, and her unique genetic condition was not known until she was stained.
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