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Black Walnut Embryos Revive After 23 Years on Ice

Black walnut tree (Photo: Jean-Pol Grandmont)

Reprinted from CREW Review Fall 2016 CREW’s Exceptional Signature Plant Project focuses on species for which traditional seed banking is not workable. This includes a number of large-seeded temperate trees that have seeds which [...]

Have You Ever Heard of a Black-footed Cat?

Guest blogger: Anneke Moresco, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW) If you haven’t, you are in good company. Black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) are small cats native to the arid [...]

Pushing the Envelope on Frozen Semen Fertility with Gek the Pallas’ Cat

Back in the early 1990s, an eager young post-doctoral fellow was hired to study cat reproduction at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park. One of his first projects involved a small-sized, little-known Central Asian felid [...]