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		<title>A snake that thinks it&#8217;s a bird.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Rossignol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a bird. It&#8217;s a plane. It&#8217;s a flying snake and I&#8217;m confused why it thinks it&#8217;s a thing of flight. (Identity crisis? or efficient technique borrower?) As if snakes aren&#8217;t already enough of an evolutionary oddity without arms and such, this one can fly! Somewhere the species God is laughing at all you Ophidiophobes. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xspecies.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10109245&#038;post=316&#038;subd=xspecies&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The poo poo eating, cancer fighting sand puppy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Rossignol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate to break it to you, but nature has won once again. With our many technological advances we may consider ourselves finalists in the evolution competition: (Image from Software Creation Mystery) But, we haven&#8217;t been able to ward of something like cancer. This is where nature wins. An unsuspecting character happens to have this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xspecies.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10109245&#038;post=259&#038;subd=xspecies&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bee Mating- Gladiator Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Rossignol</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dawson's bee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, this post really should be called Super AWFUL Bee Gladiator Foreplay. But wait, don&#8217;t stop reading, it&#8217;s not kinky, Darwin would think it to be honorable- if that&#8217;s a hint. The large Australian Dawson&#8217;s male bee is known to fight over females&#8230;to the DEATH, Gladiator style! The bee is one of 250 species that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xspecies.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10109245&#038;post=196&#038;subd=xspecies&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watch out, Watchmen!</title>
		<link>http://xspecies.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/watch-out-watchmen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Rossignol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the Watchmen? Maybe not. Let&#8217;s review: The Watchmen was a 12-part comic series published in 1986 and 1987. One of these characters, Doctor Manhattan, had an unforunate run-in with an &#8220;intrinsic field subtractor.&#8221; I am not sure what that is- a type of calculator? (subtract. ha.) Anyway, the U.S. government contracted some of his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xspecies.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10109245&#038;post=186&#038;subd=xspecies&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>R.O.U.S.s Are Real!</title>
		<link>http://xspecies.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/r-o-u-s-s-are-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Rossignol</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Princess Bride]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[And you thought that rats were city-dwellers. Or the wise advisor to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Splinter). Now we know the truth. A new discovery has once again proven that The Princess Bride is a story of truth and we should revere it. Folks, R.O.U.S.s are REAL. Our childhood nightmare has come true. What&#8217;s an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xspecies.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10109245&#038;post=110&#038;subd=xspecies&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kraken&#8217;s New Best Friend</title>
		<link>http://xspecies.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/the-krakens-new-best-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Rossignol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the Kraken has dumped the giant squid as its BFF and has been hanging out  with the giant normura jellyfish. &#160; There are more than 200 species of nomura jellyfish and get this, they grow up to 500 pounds! Just last week one got caught in a net of a Japanese trawler [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xspecies.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10109245&#038;post=133&#038;subd=xspecies&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pango- what?</title>
		<link>http://xspecies.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/pango-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Rossignol</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[pangolin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What has no external ears, no teeth, strong anal scent glands and can make a man succomb to the power of a woman? The answer: A hummer like anteater- the pangolin: Yes, this picture is real and it is alive. And it&#8217;s a mammal if you couldn&#8217;t tell. This African species can come in three [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xspecies.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10109245&#038;post=114&#038;subd=xspecies&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grizzly Bear + Polar Bear = Super Bear?</title>
		<link>http://xspecies.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/grizzly-bear-polar-bear-super-bear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Rossignol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you get when you cross a grizzly bear with a polar bear? + &#160; = SUPER BEAR! Wrong. What you really get is a bear that kind of looks like a grizzly bear, and yes&#8230;also kind of looks like a polar bear. SURPRISE! That&#8217;s basically what a German zoo has concluded. A BBC [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xspecies.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10109245&#038;post=82&#038;subd=xspecies&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want Nightmares? This Wasp Will Do It.</title>
		<link>http://xspecies.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/wants-nightmares-this-wasp-will-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Rossignol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is yet another reason why being a spider would suck. Not that spiders aren&#8217;t fantastic and biologically fascinating, but they always seem to be the butt of all the jokes, fear and apparently wasps. The Ichneumon wasp, is frankly, a wasp of nightmares. It would be the ultimate, manipulative bad guy. It is classified [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xspecies.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10109245&#038;post=63&#038;subd=xspecies&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dragons Are Real And They Are Making Baby Dragons</title>
		<link>http://xspecies.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/dragons-are-real-and-they-are-making-baby-dragons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Rossignol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok. Dragons have never really been considered &#8220;super heroes&#8221; but they have made books like The Hobbit worth reading, which I believe is commendable. Thus, I think they deserve a spot on this blog. If you have grievances, post away. Yet, Bilbo probably wouldn&#8217;t have been so terrified of these dragons. In fact, these may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xspecies.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10109245&#038;post=51&#038;subd=xspecies&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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