New Lemurs Found in Madagascar

BBC ^ | 9 August 2005 | Staff

[maryz]

Every time they find a new species (which has been happening frequently lately), I can't help wondering how it was missed every time they decided such-and-such a bird/animal/plant/bug/fish/reptile was endangered and there were only 37 left in the world.

[Our_Man_In_Gough_Island]

" There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy". Good point.

[Bon mots]

Biology!
I can just barely remember...

Kings Play Cards On Fat Girls' Stomachs

[absolootezer0]

they also just found a woodpecker they thought had been extinct for 80 years or so. next someone's gonna find themselves a dodo somewhere.

[absolootezer0]

i learned it King Phillip Called Out For Good Soup
now do you remember what it stands for?
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species - i think.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[js1138]

Look at the eye sockets on that skull.

Makes you wonder where the Roswell aliens have room for their brains. Judging from the external view of their eyes, their eyeballs would have to be the size of grapefruits.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Lemurs are humanity's godson's uncle's cousin's husband.

[rabidralph]

What do you know about this?

[Cold Heart]

I learned K.P. KOFGS
I also learned to capitilize certain letters.

[narby]

2 million (insert maniacal laugh here) years of evolution, and it takes a genetic study to confirm that we have 2 slightly different species of lemur. But a few weeks ago we were treated to elephants 'evolving' towards tuskless in a matter of a couple dozen years. Hmmmmm...

Probably a good example of punctuated equilibrium for the elephants.

While the lemurs have lived in a relatively stable environment for that long, the elephants have just recently encountered an entirely different evolutionary pressure. Namely, they're shot if they have tusks.

Makes perfect sense.

[Bon mots]

Exactly right. I remembered what it stood for, I was just curious as to who else would identify it.

OK. How about this one:

My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pickles

[Bon mots]

My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pickles

Give up?

Highlight the space below this sentence for the answer.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
It's the order of the planets from the Sun on out!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

More flying primates???

[absolootezer0]

you forgot that new tenth one tho!
i heard the same one except with pennies :)

[RightWingAtheist]

Flying lemurs aren't real lemurs; they aren't even real primates. However, they are our closest living non-primate relatives, if you don't consider tree shrews to be actual primates.

[sandydipper]

Kweel - we need to extract DNA from them so that their species will not vanish - like the carrier pigeons.

[RightWingAtheist]

Pretty cool, although I think it would be even cooler if they found a living species of the giant non-mouse lemurs, which became extinct shortly after humans first arrived on Madagascar (as usual), or a new species of aye-aye.

[RightWingAtheist]

Carrier pigeons are still around. It's passenger pigeons which are extinct :(

[absolootezer0]

here's one for you... "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!"
highlight down for answer..
how to remember pi. how=3 i=1 want=4...