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  Best lake monster image ever: the Mansi photo [Tetrapod Zoology] Here at Tet Zoo we've looked at lake monsters on a couple of occasions now: at alleged Nessie photos here , and at the sad death of the Lake Khaiyr monster here . For a while I've been planning to add to this list, and to write about one of the... Posted Jun 03 2008, 06:32 PM by ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Feeds Filed under: amp, occasions, zoo, tet, literature, sandra mansi, cryptozoology, monster photos, lake monster, colour photo, nessie photos, photo detail, sad death, lake monsters

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  I've heard of eating in... [Laelaps] ... but this is ridiculous; [beware the blood & gore] Although it's not clear how this giraffe died, the video does serve to illustrate an important point; spotted hyena ( Crocuta crocuta ) often hunt alone, and if an individual comes across a... Posted Mar 15 2008, 07:48 AM by ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Feeds Filed under: amp, carcass, giraffe, hyena, hunting party, important point, gore, trade offs

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  Pumas of South Africa, cheetahs of France, jaguars of England [Tetrapod Zoology] In the previous article (required reading) we looked at European leopards. But the leopard wasn't the only big spotted Panthera species that lived in Europe during the Pleistocene: it was joined by a second, far less well known species: Panthera gombaszoegensis... Posted Mar 13 2008, 01:25 PM by ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Feeds Filed under: amp, subspecies, leopard, hemmer, pleistocene, panthera onca, jaguar, leopards, europe, leo, regan, note however that

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  Adaptive acceleration [Gene Expression] The acceleration story has finally cooled down a bit judging by my google news feed. That being said, I suggest you check out the comments threads on p-ter's two posts , here & here . John Hawks and some of the other authors of the paper have... Posted Dec 18 2007, 01:15 AM by ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Feeds Filed under: amp, darwinian selection, john hawks, homo, open access, hawks, google, threads, acceleration, ter, news feed, google news, global landscape, explication