The Dead Sea commandments were written in Hebrew on parchment made of animal skin.
Burch kicks off "Honey Blue" by pounding on the animal skin stretched across his childhood drum set for a "tom tom" beat.
Two wooden blocks, as any toddler knows, work fine as a percussion instrument, and give any Neanderthal half a gourd and a bit of animal skin and you've got a proto-Ringo.
The other distinction is that traditional healers use herbs, plants and some animal skin in the muthi (medicines), whereas witch doctors are said to also use human body parts, meaning they are sometimes implicated in murders.
And the final idea--they had four--was to actually take a cell from an adult animal--a skin cell from you, for example--and figure out how to turn it back into what it once was in its lineage, you know, way--so it's got all the DNA, but it's become specialized.
"If you understand the distribution of these structures in the skin of a prey animal, you can understand something about predator-prey interactions, and it might explain some of the hadrosaur fossils we see with these bite marks, " he said.
The albino condition, caused by a lack of colouring pigments in the skin, can lead to the animal being susceptible to sunburn, but the zoo said its wallaby enclosure had lots of shade and it should lead a "normal life".
Implanting sensors under the skin, notes Howard Erikson, an animal physiologist at Kansas State University, has to be done in a way that doesn't compromise the safety of the meat.
Animal warden Sue Knight used a microchip detector over Diesel's skin and found Ms Chapman's details.
Some patches are created from animal organs, such as cow intestines, and even from the skin of some reptiles.
Animal tests, described in the journal Cell Stem Cell, have now used modified skin cells to repair the insulation.
Even though I had been assured that the tags wouldn't hurt the walruses because of their tough skin and thick layer of blubber, I was still relieved to see that the animal barely seemed to notice the tag as it landed on its hide.
Ian Gunn at the Animal Gene Storage Resource Centre of Australia, also in Melbourne, is collecting testes, ovaries, bits of skin and other body parts from over 100 species.
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