Dinosaurs Could Be Brought Back To Life Using Bird DNA, Experts...

Dinosaurs could be brought back to life…using the DNA of birds. In an echo of Jurassic Park, experts believe identifying and altering certain genes found in the DNA of modern birds would
mean genomes of the prehistoric creatures could be engineered 20 million years after they died out.

Oxford biochemist Dr Alison Woollard says it would be theoretically possible to recreate species through the DNA. A mosquito was recently discovered which had the blood of
another animal in its stomach dating back 46 million years.

Dr Woollard said: “We know that birds are the direct descendants of dinosaurs, as proven by an unbroken line of fossils which tracks the evolution of the lineage from creatures such as the velociraptor or T-Rex through to the birds flying around today.

“The most famous of these is the Archaeopteryx, a fossil which clearly shows the transition between feathered dinosaurs and modern birds. “This evolution implies that buried deep within the DNA of today’s birds are switched-off genes that control dinosaur-like traits. “Could we ‘rewind’ evolution by switching these genes back on and using them to guide the development of that bird’s offspring, and its offspring’s offspring, backwards?”
 All animals and plants are related, sharing a common ancestor that lived about 1.6 billion years ago. To make a full genome, scientists would have to combine millions of short fragments of nucleic acids in exactly the right
order, just like putting together an enormous jigsaw puzzle.

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Breaking News: ASUU Strike Is Over.....

Good news!!! After several meetings between the Federal Government and ASUU officials, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have decided to call off the over 5-month old strike. The decision came after the ASUU NEC meeting which held in FUT Minna today monday 16th december 2013 following the outcome of the 13hr marathon meeting with Mr President on 4th November 2013.

After a protracted debate, the federal government and ASUU reached a compromise during a negotiation brokered by president of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar few days ago.



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Why I Married Him Despite The Fact He Is Younger Than Me - Lola Omotayo Okoye

Peter Okoye of P’Square and Lola Omotayo’s love story is compelling and amazing. The couple have been in a relationship for over eight years before they finally tied the knot on Sunday, November 17, 2013.

There has been a lot of talk and whispers about their marriage, the family issues and the fact that Lola is by far older than Peter Okoye has been trending. But why did she decide to marry someone who’s her junior?

Below is Lola Omotayo’s stand on their age difference…
Lola, who was a Business Development Director at FKG2m a marketing agency in Lagos, had told the story of how she and
Peter met and how the relationship started:

“My agency handles some of British American Tobacco brands and P’Square was doing a show for us at one of our events in Enugu. Though I had met Peter a couple of times before then, at the show there was some chemistry. He asked for my number and I refused giving it to him. I told him ‘if you really want to know me, you have to find my number’. So he took it as a task and found my number and the rest is history.”

Lola, said to be in her 30s then and Peter in his 20s, was not disturbed by the age difference.

Her reason:

“Like I said, Peter is an old soul and he always tells me that I’m like a 23-year-old. Age is just a number. Right now, you can see it around the world. Demi Moore, Usher and some known people. Even in Nigeria here, they are dating people far older than their age. So, we shouldn’t base it on the age factor. He doesn’t make me feel like he’s younger than me.”

Hmmmn, is age really just a number in marriage, especially in Nigeria?

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