Keratin is the tough protein that forms hair, nails and hooves. It’s also responsible for something far stranger: human horns.
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An appreciation for the moths that chomp holes in your clothes. They eat the inedible, occupy the uninhabitable and overcome every evolutionary obstacle in their way.
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Professor, Palaeobiology, University College Cork
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