The Creatures program keeps information about the world in various files. If you're the kind of person who's comfortable poking around inside of binary files, you can find out, and even change, various things about your Albia and your norns by messing around inside them. I'm not going to give a tutorial on binary files here, though! If you're not already comfortable in there, use this information only with the extremest of caution.
Creatures File Formats: some stuff about the format of some Creatures files that I've figured out. Includes the Registry, the Graveyard, Photo Album files, the palette file, and composite SPR files.
Some notes on biochemistry, including observations and theory on the mechanism of disease.
Genetic Studies of the aboriginal norns (the mums and dads), and of the six free norns that we got from Cyberlife when we registered.
Gene-Compare Program: this is a little hack in REXX to compare a norn's genes with the genes of its parents, so you can find and think about the mutations that have occurred. It's a hack, and it's in a slightly obscure language, but it might be useful to anyone that can read it. See the excellant geNorNics site for more details about which gene is what.
Manfred Duesing's very nice List of Mutations, showing all the mutations that he found in his first hundred or so Norns: great raw material for research here! Also some insightful analysis from Manfred himself.
Albia before colorization! The palette used for everything in Albia (but not the initial logo splash) is stored in palettes\palette.dta under the main creatures directory. Replace it, and you recolorize Albia. Or replace it with this to get Albia in 256 fetching shades of grey. (To use, rename your existing palette.dta to palette.bak or something, then move this one in as palette.dta.)
Note: if you use the black-and-white palette file, and then switch back to the normal one, things that were brought into the black-and-white Albia (newly born norns, newly extruded grendels, perhaps even injected COBs) will sometimes be funny colors. Exporting and importing seems to fix it. I haven't come up with a good theory as to why this happens, but having a sort of sparkly blue-and-grey grendel is at least novel!