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    11 hours ago

    if yeah want an amazing dinosaur park media, check out Dinosaur Sanctuary.

    they treat the dinosaurs as animals, and the whole plot revolves around the upkeep of the zoo.

    it was cowritten by a paleontologist and a manga artist.

    that manga speaks to my soul as I worked in a zoo when I was 18 to 21. it really hits my nostalgia,













  • thanks for the paper.

    if I was a reviewer I would make them change the terms. they went for eDNA in the soil, but they also called it eDNA when collecting from skin swab, which by definition, isn’t eDNA (unless you’re trying to detect organisms that are in contact with the salamander). they are at best controls or sample confirmations. but I won’t call it eDNA.

    However, I’ve had to review papers much worse than this. I’m only arguing semantics here, interesting paper though.




  • WHAT?

    eDNA is the idea of taking a environmental sample like water or air, and finding traces of DNA and figuring out what creatures live in the area. you wouldn’t take a sample from an animal mouth to check for eDNA.

    you could tell what salamanders live in a pond by getting eDNA from the water, but no real point in checking the DNA in the salamander mouth.

    maybe to double check results for testing.