A substantial portion of the Tasmanian tiger genome was sequenced and published today.  Interesting beast.  It was a marsupial and therefore, much more closely related to the Kangaroo and the Oppossum than to any actual tiger.  It was a predator that was top of the food chain in Tasmania and it went extinct because of […]

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The international society for science and religion has just released a statement that describes intelligent design as “neither sound science nor good theology”.
You should go and read the statement here.

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We have only 60 different mammal species in Ireland…or so we thought.
From RTÉ today…very exciting.
New mammal discovered in IrelandMonday, 28 April 2008 15:06A Belfast PhD student has discovered a type of shrew never before seen in Ireland.
It is the first time in 44 years that a new mammal species has been found in Ireland.
The discovery […]

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