5/7/2023 0 Comments Another night with the frogs![]() This will allow us to compare, at the genomic level, these frogs with frogs collected in the Zone 30 years ago, right after the accident.įinally, we worked with the other species from which we have old samples, the waterfrogs of the Pelophylax esculentus group. Then, we moved to work with the fire-bellied toads ( Bombina bombina) taking a small sample from a feet phalanx of the five toads collected during the night in the Azbuchyn lake. For now, frogs are quiet in their containers at the lab. One day later we will take another photo to estimated if coloration has changed with time, and as a consequence of background color. So, every frogs was photographed and put in a container either with dark or light background. First thing we did was to set up our small experiment to look for coloration plasticity in the treefrogs. This year the sampling is pretty easy compared with previous seasons in which we collected multiple tissue samples from each individual, so things were fast and easy. ![]() We started the day in the lab checking all the frogs collected during our first night of work in the Zone. Lampkin, a key cog in the TCU frontcourt much of the year, entered the transfer portal just before the Big 12 tournament.On our second night of field work we keep with the good luck and collected all the frogs we needed from the old locations inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone where they were collected back in 1987. ![]() With TCU’s big men in foul trouble, one difference might have been the absence of Eddie Lampkin. Over the final, frenetic 40 seconds, UCLA made two steals, scored the last five points and left Zags star Adam Morrison nearly crying on the court. The meeting Thursday with UCLA in Vegas will fall on the 16th anniversary of their classic Sweet 16 game, won 73-71 by the Bruins. He does things like that every once in a while.” “And he still wasn't supposed to shoot that 3. “I think he's going to go down as one of the all-time great college players in the history of the game,” Gonzaga coach Mark Few said. And Timme joined a list that includes Bill Bradley, Elvin Hayes and Danny Manning as only the seventh player with nine NCAA Tournament games of 20-plus points. Strawther, a Las Vegas native, will head home for his team's next game. His two 3-pointers and another by Julian Strawther gave the Bulldogs a 46-45 lead after they had missed 12 of their 14 attempts from behind the arc in the first half. Rasir Bolton (17 points) led Gonzaga's first big run. TCU had led by as many as 10 in the first half. ![]() They came at the Bulldogs in waves, trying to stop Timme with every big man on the roster.īut while the Gonzaga big man worked for every one of his 12 baskets, TCU’s bigs were all in foul trouble as the game wound down and Timme took over. Small consolation for TCU, though for 30 minutes-plus, the Frogs looked like very much like one of the 16 best teams in the country. finished with 24 points and four assists in his second straight electric game for the sixth-seeded Horned Frogs (22-13), who were trying to win two games in the same tournament for the first time in program history. It will be a rematch of their Final Four game two years ago, when Jalen Suggs banked one in from the half-court logo at the buzzer for the win. Next stop for the 6-foot-10 senior and his social media-friendly mustache: Las Vegas for the West Region semifinals and a meeting with UCLA on Thursday. All you can do is smile and laugh.”Īfter TCU pulled back within three late, Timme made a twisting shot in the lane with a defender draped all over him to trigger a 4-0 mini-run that put the game out of reach. “It was huge - the clock, the two-point lead,” Timme said of the margin before he made his shot. ![]()
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