Life Science Channel Update 12/1/08

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This is actually a plant. From Flickr, by josef.stuefer

Celosia cristata (Amaranthaceae) to be exact.

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“Tell me you're not excited about 'Pleistocene Park' becoming a reality. Saber tooth tigers, mammoths—I'd pay anything to see that! I so hope they really do clone a mammoth. Ethics be damned!“

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