CNN is reporting that mammals have been sighted in Europe:
Using DNA testing, scientists have discovered what is believed to be the first terrestrial mammal found in Europe in decades: a mouse with a big head, ears, eyes and teeth that lives in a mountainous area of Cyprus.
The mouse was native to the eastern Mediterranean island, survived the arrival of man on Cyprus and could be considered a "living fossil," experts said.
I assume they mean the discovery of a new species of mammal rather than that mammals had been observed where they were not previously believed to exist. I have been to Europe, and I am pretty certain those people aren't reptile babies.
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What about the French?
<giggles>
Explaination: I live in France, but am not French. 'Nuff said.
Nope, French are definitely mammals. I'm living in France too (not being French either) and there are no reptiles who can eat that much cheese.
The other thing that bothered me about that sentence was the mention of "terrestrial". Do they regularly discover new species of non-terrestrial mammals? What would that be, exactly, whales or dolphins?
Have you seen the clothes they wear? Heard the music they listen to? They are hardly mammals, let alone human. The eurotrash are surely some sort of nematode or cnidarian.