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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:

Science: Carl Zimmer tells us that mammals have a gene that's absolutely needed for embryonic development, that came to us from a virus.

From Fox News, a report, with a picture, on a flower grown from seed frozen into the ice, thousands of years ago.

Wired reports that dolphins do the equivalent of saying "Hello, I'm Jane Smith."

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