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Name: Bill LaLonde, or a reasonable facsimile
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(Via Ideonexus) The genome of the platypus has been sequenced! World's Strangest Creature? Part Mammal, Part ReptileThe platypus sports fur like a mammal, paddles its duck feet like a bird and lays eggs in the manner of a reptile.
Nature's instruction manual for this oddball, it turns out, is just as much of a mishmash.
Researchers just mapped the genome of a female platypus from Australia. The genetic sequence of this Aussie monotreme (a type of mammal) is detailed in the May 8 issue of the journal Nature...
At roughly 2.2 billion base pairs, the platypus genome is about two-thirds the size of the human genome, the researchers found. It shares more than 80 percent of its genes with other mammals...
The researchers revealed the animal has 52 chromosomes, including 10 sex chromosomes.
The article has some fun platypus facts; for example, since platypuses have no nipples, how do their young suckle? Check out the article for the answer. Tags: biology, critters, dailyplatypus, genetics
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(Found via Fact Checker) HNN Poll: 61% of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency WorstA Pew Research Center poll released last week found that the share of the American public that approves of President George W. Bush has dropped to a new low of 28 percent.
An unscientific poll of professional historians completed the same week produced results far worse for a president clinging to the hope that history will someday take a kinder view of his presidency than does contemporary public opinion.
In an informal survey of 109 professional historians conducted over a three-week period through the History News Network, 98.2 percent assessed the presidency of Mr. Bush to be a failure while 1.8 percent classified it as a success...
Asked to rank the presidency of George W. Bush in comparison to those of the other 41 American presidents, more than 61 percent of the historians concluded that the current presidency is the worst in the nation’s history. Another 35 percent of the historians surveyed rated the Bush presidency in the 31st to 41st category, while only four of the 109 respondents ranked the current presidency as even among the top two-thirds of American administrations.
At least two of those who ranked the current president in the 31-41 ranking made it clear that they placed him next-to-last, with only James Buchanan, in their view, being worse. “He is easily one of the 10-worst of all time and—if the magnitude of the challenges and opportunities matter—then probably in the bottom five, alongside Buchanan, Johnson, Fillmore, and Pierce,” wrote another historian... And of course we all know James Buchanan as the namesake of the high school that produced those fine students Vincent Barbarino, Arnold Horshack, Freddie Washington, and Juan Epstein, don't we? Perhaps Welcome Back Kotter: the Next Generation will be set at George W. Bush High School. Tags: politics, usa
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