RESISTANCE TO MYXOMATOSIS
In 1950, Australia used a virus as a biological weapon against millions of rabbits; scientists just decoded how they fought back, using DNA from a rabbit that once belonged to Charles DarwinAustralia's 1950 introduction of the myxoma virus to control rabbits backfired as evolution intervened. Scientists, analyzing rabbit DNA ac...
On Easter Sunday, a moment to savour the real triumph of rabbitsEuropeans were the first to hunt and domesticate rabbits.
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