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14th June 2006, 08:01 PM
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Just what we need, more "rats". 
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0614090123.htm
The first images of a live specimen of a small, furry animal once believed to have gone extinct more than 11 million years ago have been captured during a Southeast Asian expedition led by a retired Florida State University researcher.........................................
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14th June 2006, 09:00 PM
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14th June 2006, 09:41 PM
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Reps: 9,274,249 (power: 9,291) | | | For science, nothing much. We thought some creature was extinct, now we find out it isn't. Apparantly, according to the article, it's belongs to an entire new family, which is cool and means we'll need to add a new branch to the tree of life, although not too high up. It will be interesting to see results of research on it's behavior etc.
And you're right, it's definitely cute.
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14th June 2006, 09:46 PM
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Neat article LLoJ, thanks for sharing it.
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14th June 2006, 09:48 PM
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15th June 2006, 01:20 AM
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15th June 2006, 01:30 AM
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Reps: 4,026 (power: 11) | | Originally Posted by charityagape It looks like a squirl and a rat um met up and made an ugly squirl or a cute rat.
Well, squirrels are basically rats with bushy tails anyway. | |
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