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This is a cool article on MSN this morning.

a Diatomyidae, or Laotian Rock Rat, thought to have been extinct for 11 million years, has finally been caught live on film.

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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13328579/?GT1=8211

pretty neat. I know Ronthepon likes rats.
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Check this out! (its not living, but )

Gansus yumenensis scientists say is a missing link in bird evolution.
recently discovered in China.
they say the 110 million year-old bird bridges the gap between dinosaurs and today!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13342029/

whadda' you think?
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they look like massive ducks
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The only expected survivors of worldwide nuclear mututally assured destruction: Rats, roaches, and Keith Richards.
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...Keith Richards.
Naw! Keith was just about done in by a cocoanut palm!

Huzzah for yet another data point to confirm the evolutionary progression of the species...

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