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nothing other than that a mouse’s life and an elephant’s life are equally long. Likewise, the movements of turtles, which are said to live longer than humans, seem awfully sluggish to us. Winged mice are a species with an even slower heartbeat, in line with the fact that they are animals with a meager concept of time (= pulse). As Dr. Ishikawa once indicated, winged mice also have a variety of singular organs, and in light of the unique circulatory system it is possible that their makeup adapted appropriately. In humans too, even with adequate blood flow, it is believed that prolonged use of a roller pump-like heart-lung machine, in the course of heart surgery for instance, damages ourother organs, which have long adapted to pulsing streams. In addition, the blood flow’s effect on body temperature and contribution to cell metabolism is a deeply interesting issue in the context of lifespans. A constant hibernation-like state where the cells’ clock hands advance slowly would of course yield a long lifespan. Yet proving this now, in the absence of specimens, is impossible.
    Despite these pages, some readers may think that nothing has been solved in the scientific sense. Indeed, nearly all of the events, not to mention the above excursus, lack incontrovertible material evidence and by and large do not rise above the level of subjective interpretation. In fact, some readers may utilize the content of this document to form their own hypotheses and to assemble a completely different narrative.
    What I came to realize after sifting through the massive amount of log entries is that this is not science as we understand it. Both of the defendants are now deceased and their actions will remain un-indicted. Whether or not what Dr.Sakakibara felt compelled to get across in the face of death has gotten across awaits the judgment of the reader who has followed us thus far.
    The cover of this year’s January 14th edition of
Nature
12 featured a close-up photo of the face of a mouse without eyes. It was from a paper on mole rats.
    In that paper, the authors draw a unique conclusion. It was long believed that the eyeballs of mole rats had regressed, but as detailed observation and pathological considerations indicated that the eyes exist, hidden, along with a developed signal transmission route from the oculi to the brain, it may in fact be the result of evolution.
    The mainstream of modern biology is microcellular research, which proceeds by using the simplest of cells and genetic material, and which ascribes maximal value to universal axioms. The pages of top journals like
Nature
and
Cell
are filled with the genetic control mechanisms and intra-cellularsignal transmissions common to all organisms from intestinal bacteria to
Homo sapiens
. Compared to traditional natural history, interest in the source material has clearly waned, and research such as that on the mole rat has become exceedingly rare.
    Given that winged mouse research held an even greater impact than that on mole rats, it is truly a shame, but I have been informed that the original personnel, Mitsuo Miura, Yoji Ogawa, et al., are currently considering a submission based on data compiled from the logs of Drs. Akedera and Sakakibara. This past summer, the novel
Jurassic Park
was widely discussed in both the United States and Japan. The story is about reconstituting living dinosaurs in today’s world via blood cell DNA extracted from ancient blood-sucking insects trapped in amber. Immediately prior to the release of the movie based on the novel, the June 10th edition of
Nature
13 included a paper reporting a DNA sequence extracted from paramecium found in Lebanese amber dating back 120 million years (when dinosaurs walked the planet). It is not certain whether the fiction preceded the fact (I personallyfind it more interesting if it did), but likewise, one day we might reconstitute the winged mouse from its DNA. Or rather, I pray that we do.
    In accordance with Dr.