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Flying Lemurs Wearing High Tech Backpacks
Posted by Benny Bleiman on February 6, 2008
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Scientists in Malaysia have strapped high-tech backpacks onto flying lemurs, humans’ closest cousins, to help understand the aerodynamics of how these nifty little creatures glide through the air. The flying lemurs aren’t actually lemurs, so from now on we’re going to refer to them by their mother’s maiden name, colugos. The scientists also didn’t “strap”…
We Told You So…Colugos Are Humans’ Closest Cousins!
Posted by Benny Bleiman on November 1, 2007 We, the Brothers Bleiman, have speculated for years that humans’ closest relative outside of the primate group is the colugo or flying lemur. Turns out we were right! What up, cuz? Two scientists, one from Penn State the other from Texas A&M, have recently proven that…