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🦁 Genome Zoo

Every living thing has a genome — its own book of DNA. Tap any creature to read a fun fact and see how big its DNA is compared to yours. Look, don't buy — just explore!

How big are these numbers? 🔢

1,000,000,000

billion

1,000,000

million

1,000

thousand

The chips below show how many DNA letters — for example 290B means 290 billion!

Limited Editions

Rare, numbered drops — a finite run, then gone for good. The Visitor from beyond the stars, Astrophage the star-eater, the Unicorn, and the Imperial Gold & Black Dragons.

The Chinese Zodiac

All twelve signs — give the genome of anyone's birth year, a perfect Lunar New Year gift

Beloved Animals

The companions and creatures we love

The Wild Kingdom

Giants of the sea and savanna

On Wings

Songbirds, raptors, and messengers of the sky

The Deep Blue

Gentle wonders of the reef and the open sea

The Outlandish

Real creatures so strange they seem invented — the planet's wonderful oddballs

Guardians · Conservation Tribute

The world's most endangered creatures — a portion of every claim supports the Waterfield Environmental Resources Center at Purdue University

Ancient Bloodlines

Extinct giants and living relics — genomes from deep time

When Giants Ruled

The great dinosaurs — imaginative genome reconstructions, sized to the real animals, offered for wonder

Scales & Serpents

Lizards and snakes, ancient and venomous

Spiders, Bugs & Butterflies

Silk-spinners, pollinators, and summer-night wonders

Champions of Science

The humble model organisms that unlocked modern biology

Genome Giants

Have you ever wanted to own a million of something? Now you can — claim a full 1,000,000 base pairs of one of Earth's largest genomes. Keep it for yourself, or dedicate it to someone you love.

From the Garden

Flowers and crops that feed and delight us

The Standing Ones

Mighty and ancient trees — living legacies that outlast us

The Fungi

Neither plant nor animal — a kingdom all their own, closer kin to us than to the plants they grow beside

Microscopic Life

The tiny engines of biology

Extremophiles

Life at the very edge — thriving in boiling springs, deadly radiation, and seas of salt

Viruses

Often just a strand of RNA — and remarkably small

Realm of Legend

Purely for fun — imagined genomes of creatures that never were