Vargr Personality Source Material (from Dogs)

six basic types:
http://www.fl-k9.com/personalities.htm

List of dog breeds:
http://www.justdogbreeds.com/dog-breeds.html

Methane-spewing Microbe Blamed in Earth's Worst Mass Extinction - Scientific American

Methane-spewing Microbe Blamed in Earth's Worst Mass Extinction - Scientific American

A microbe that spewed humongous amounts of methane into Earth's atmosphere triggered a global catastrophe 252 million years ago that wiped out upwards of 90 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land vertebrates.

The scale of this calamity made the one that doomed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago - a six-mile wide asteroid smacking the planet - seem like a picnic by comparison.

The implicated microbe, Methanosarcina, is a member of a kingdom of single-celled organisms distinct from bacteria called archaea that lack a nucleus and other usual cell structures.

Different article on same subject:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-single-act-evolution-nearly-wiped-out-all-life-earth-180950341/?no-ist

‘Death stars’ in Orion wreak havoc on planets before they even develop | Science Recorder

‘Death stars’ in Orion wreak havoc on planets before they even develop | Science Recorder:

Protostars that lie within 0.1 light years of an O-type star are likely to have their cocoons of dust and gas completely removed in a mere few million years.

Read more: http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/death-stars-in-orion-wreak-havoc-on-planets-before-they-even-develop/#ixzz2xUcYHtCQ

Poison gas in star's planetary system hints at a violent collision - latimes.com

Poison gas in star's planetary system hints at a violent collision - latimes.com

In a young, nearby solar system, scientists have discovered giant clouds of poison gas -- the smoking gun from a violent encounter, astronomers say. Based on massive amounts of carbon monoxide gas around the star Beta Pictoris, either two Mars-sized planets slammed into each other with catastrophic results, or hordes of comets are crashing into one another at an astounding rate.

The findings, published by the journal Science, could help provide an up-close look at how stars and their planetary systems form and evolve.

Beta Pictoris lies about 63 light years away and is only about 20 million years old, with a dusty disc of debris circling the star -- the remains that didn’t coalesce to form planets, moons, asteroids and other rocky objects. It has at least one planet, a gas giant that’s several times Jupiter’s mass and sits roughly nine times as far from its home star as Earth sits from our sun.

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-beta-pictoris-star-planet-gas-collision-comets-carbon-monoxide-20140307,0,1884709.story#ixzz2vNyOkBQ6

The Archaeology of the Stars - NYTimes.com

The Archaeology of the Stars - NYTimes.com

The star, SMSS 0313-6708, is presumably very old, perhaps the oldest yet identified. The astronomers who found it estimate that it formed over 13 billion years ago. 

Hubble Witnesses Mysterious Breakup of Asteroid : Discovery News

Hubble Witnesses Mysterious Breakup of Asteroid : Discovery News:

Hubble has observed some weird things since it was launched in 1990, but this is probably one of the strangest.

In September 2013, the Catalina and Pan-STARRS sky surveys spotted a mysterious object in the asteroid belt, a region of rocky debris that occupy the space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Follow-up observations by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii resolved three separate objects within the fuzzy cloud. It was so strange that Hubble mission managers decided to use the space telescope to get a closer look.

And what they saw has baffled and thrilled astronomers in equal measure.

Hubble resolved the slow-moving debris of an asteroid that is in the process of breaking up. The asteroid, designated P/2013 R3, hasn’t hit anything, as the fragments are moving too slow — it just seems to be falling apart. This is unprecedented, never before has an asteroid been seen disintegrating to this degree in the asteroid belt.

Ancient "Giant Virus" Revived From Siberian Permafrost

Ancient "Giant Virus" Revived From Siberian Permafrost:


Amazingly, even after more than 30,000 years embedded in ancient permafrost, when Claverie and Abergel exposed amoebas in their lab to the virus, they found that the virus was still active and quickly infected the host cell. "We use amoeba on purpose as a safe bait for capturing viruses. We then immediately verify that they are not able to infect animal/human cells," stressed the researchers.