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To: PatrickHenry

Platypus fact. It is the only venomous mammal.


50 posted on 02/11/2005 8:35:30 AM PST by TASMANIANRED (Certified cause of Post Traumatic Redhead Syndrome)
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To: TASMANIANRED

How about a woman scorned?


53 posted on 02/11/2005 8:37:20 AM PST by furball4paws ("These are Microbes."... "You have crobes?" BC)
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To: TASMANIANRED
Actually the solenodon of Cuba and Haiti, another "living fossil" is also mildly venomous. It secretes a poison through a groove in its tooth.

It's pretty interesting not only how venomous creatures are so much more common in island populations, but they tend to be so much more dangerous than their counteparts. The most venomous snakes in the world are found in Australia and the only poisonous bird found to date lives in New Guinea. There's a question which I'd love to see evolutionary epidemiologists tackle; I'm sure there has to be an adaptationist explanation for this.

71 posted on 02/11/2005 9:14:37 AM PST by RightWingAtheist (Marxism-the creationism of the left)
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To: TASMANIANRED

Are you sure? The State of New York has one for a junior Senator.


77 posted on 02/11/2005 9:26:55 AM PST by Redcloak (More cleverly arranged 1's and 0's)
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To: TASMANIANRED

Have you met my EX?


88 posted on 02/11/2005 9:41:52 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: TASMANIANRED
Platypus fact. It is the only venomous mammal.

I believe that you're mistaken.

In addition to the platypus, the Solenodon, a Cuban insectivore is venomous, as well as several varieties of shrew.

122 posted on 02/11/2005 1:08:57 PM PST by Liberal Classic (No better friend, no worse enemy. Semper Fi.)
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To: TASMANIANRED

What about HRC. Oh, I forgot. She's not a mammal.


212 posted on 02/13/2005 4:31:11 PM PST by meatloaf
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To: TASMANIANRED
Platypus fact. It is the only venomous mammal.

WRONG!

Hillary Clinton is a venomous mammel!

No, wait, she's more of a reptile...

396 posted on 02/16/2005 7:07:59 PM PST by Lurking2Long
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To: PatrickHenry

Yeah, now that Saddam's sons are dead.

Aren't our thumbs getting progressively longer, and our heads bigger? Aren't a significant number of humans being born even today with vestigial tails?
I'm still waiting for archeological finds of chairs with holes in the seats.
Evidence for evolution exists, of course. But it only adds to the ever-unfolding majesty and mystery of creation.
(will we soon have to redesign the cigarette lighter and the doorknob?


415 posted on 02/17/2005 6:11:52 AM PST by LNR
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