Trakr, the hero rescue dog who sniffed out survivors from the ruins of the World Trade Center after 9/11, has won a competition to be cloned. The German Shepherd was picked as the “most clone-worthy” dog in a contest presenting dog owners with an opportunity to clone their pet, free of charge by the California company BioArts International. Trakr and his owner James Symington were among the first search and rescue teams to arrive on the smoldering site of Ground Zero on September 11, 2001. The pair also found the last human survivor at the scene of the disaster, located under 30 feet of wreckage.

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Beringia isn’t a popular tourist destination anymore, since it’s sumberged under water and all that. But you should have seen it 20,000 years ago. It was something else. A real popular lay over for people traveling from Asia to America. Specifically, scientists have discovered, Beringia was where the ancestors of almost all Native Americans used to live. A new DNA study, published this week by the journal PLoS One, suggests that 95% of the Native Americans from North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated to From Asia to the Americas some 20,000 years ago. In case you couldn’t already figure this out, The researchers created a “family tree” that traces the different mitochondrial DNA lineages found in today’s Native Americans. And, obvi, unlike the DNA found in the nucleus, mitochondrial DNA is passed down by the mother.

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