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General Discussion => Science & Nature => Topic started by: sam on January 24, 2010, 18:19

Title: Lemurs' wet and wild past
Post by: sam on January 24, 2010, 18:19
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100120/full/news.2010.23.html

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Castaways are probably behind the island of Madagascar's incredible biodiversity. A new model provides strong evidence that lemurs and other small mammals first arrived millions of years ago, travelling on African logs that had washed out to sea.
Title: Re: Lemurs' wet and wild past
Post by: Rik on January 24, 2010, 18:21
I bet they didn't have to get past immigration back then, Sam. ;)
Title: Re: Lemurs' wet and wild past
Post by: sam on January 24, 2010, 18:25
 :laugh:
Title: Re: Lemurs' wet and wild past
Post by: Simon on January 24, 2010, 20:04
 ;D