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		<title>An amphibious assault</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON
&#8211; The first images that come to mind may be unassuming brown newts or garden-variety green frogs, but amphibians cover a much grander spectrum.
Among about 6,000 species of frogs, salamanders and caecilians (legless animals, pronounced like &#8220;Sicilians&#8221;) are some of the world&#8217;s most bizarre animals: Giant Chinese salamanders, two metres in length; the &#8220;hairy frog&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Princess admits to kissing a frog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Princess Victoria amused onlookers in Bohuslän in western Sweden on Friday by admitting to having kissed a frog to see if it would turn into a prince.
The princess was in Bohuslän to open a new wetlands area at Nordens ark.
As part of the opening ceremony the princess inaugurated a sculpture of a frog by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bizarre frog can break its own bones to produce cat-like extendable claws</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 09:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miqe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Biologists have described a bizarre, hairy frog, which in a gruesome process, actively breaks its own bones to produce cat-like extendable claws.
According to a report in New Scientist, the frog, known as Trichobatrachus robustus, has been described by David Blackburn and colleagues at Harvard Universitys Museum of Comparative Zoology.
The researchers believe that the gruesome behaviour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snake Mystique</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 17:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the beginning of recorded time, snakes have been labeled with bad reputations. Some of these ridiculous misconceptions stem from superstitions, others from religious dogmas, but the majority of these opinions are formed out of fear and ignorance of the unknown. 
The only way to gain a deeper insight into the truth is to study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unique Adaptive Evolution Found In Snake Proteins Provide New Insight Into Vertebrate Physiology</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 12:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miqe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Prior to the advent of large sequence datasets, it was assumed that innovation and divergence at the morphological and physiological level would be easily explained at the molecular level. Molecular explanations for physiological adaptations have, however, been rare. Pollock and colleagues now provide evidence that major macroevolutionary changes in snakes (e.g., physiological and metabolic adaptations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transitional Frog Lays Eggs on Water and Land</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 12:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miqe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When our distant ancestors were making their way out from the water, they had to evolve a way to lay their eggs on land.
Now a tree frog could help shed light on this mysterious, pivotal moment in history. This little yellow Panamanian amphibian is the first known vertebrate that can lay its eggs both in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another new species of lizard discovered in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 05:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miqe</dc:creator>
		
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Another new species of ground dwelling lizard, Hemidactylus sataraensis, has been discovered in India by a team from the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS). The geckos belonging to this genus are chiefly arboreal and many of them are well known to humans. The lizards or geckos which are common in houses mostly belong to this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still just a lizard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 09:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found a blogpost that I can´t help myself from sharing with you..

&#8220;The title gets the principal objection of any creationist out of the way: yes, this population of Podarcis sicula is still made up of lizards, but they&#8217;re a different kind of lizard now. Evolution works.
Here&#8217;s the story: in 1971, scientists started an experiment. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amphibian Ark Announces &#8221;Walking Frog&#8221; Naming Auction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Highest Bidder Wins Exclusive Naming Rights to Frog Species from Ecuador

ST. LOUIS&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Amphibian Ark, a global conservation organization formed in an effort to help save the world’s amphibians from mass extinction, is announcing its first frog naming rights auction, beginning immediately. The highest bid made on www.CharityBuzz.com will win the naming rights to a newly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chameleons are dying out</title>
		<link>http://terrariummorbidum.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/chameleons-are-dying-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 12:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chameleons or Girgits — a term often used to define politicians — are fast becoming an endangered species in the country. Zeylanicus (Chameleon) is the only lizard family that originally belongs to Pakistan and India. Several years ago, the entire green belt of Thar in Sindh was their natural habitat but now these rare species [...]]]></description>
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