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		<title>T-U-R-T-L-E Power Part 3: Leatherbacks Break All the Rules.</title>
		<link>http://reptilis.net/2010/08/02/t-u-r-t-l-e-power-part-3-leatherbacks-break-all-the-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the series, let us now take a look at one weird turtle species in particular: Dermochelys coriacea, the leatherback sea turtle. While the utter weirdness of D.coriacea is ultimately the main reason for why it wound up in this series, there is an ulterior motive. Having searched the internet for general information on the [...]
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		<title>T-U-R-T-L-E Power! Part 2: The weird and wacky origin of turtles.</title>
		<link>http://reptilis.net/2010/06/26/t-u-r-t-l-e-power-part-2-the-weird-and-wacky-origin-of-turtles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a long overdue follow up to my original Turtle Power article back in&#8230;yeah never mind the date. As established previously, turtles are a strange, and highly diverse group of animals, but how did they come to be this way? The turtle bauplan has been a phylogenetic double edged sword. On the one hand, [...]
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		<title>New study suggests that group nesting should be the norm &#8211; not the exception &#8211; in reptiles.</title>
		<link>http://reptilis.net/2009/12/14/new-study-suggests-that-group-nesting-should-be-the-norm-not-the-exception-in-reptiles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing my trend of &#8220;catching up,&#8221; an article in the November issue of Natural History magazine, talks about a new study in the Quarterly Review of Biology, that finds group nesting to be very common place among extant reptiles. That study would be: Doody, J.S., Freedberg, S., Keogh, J.S.  2009. Communal Egg-Laying in Reptiles and [...]
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		<title>T-U-R-T-L-E Power! Part 1: Turtles are Weird.</title>
		<link>http://reptilis.net/2009/01/21/t-u-r-t-l-e-power-part-1-turtles-are-weird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the meme goes: I like turtles! They are such a unique group of animals, that one can&#8217;t help but be drawn to them. Yet despite their uniqueness, turtles tend to get thrown into the wastebin of “living fossils.” It&#8217;s not uncommon to hear documentaries, or books refer to turtles as having been static since [...]
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		<title>Bloody slow.</title>
		<link>http://reptilis.net/2008/03/21/bloody-slow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jura</dc:creator>
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		<title>Owen and Mzee</title>
		<link>http://reptilis.net/2008/02/09/owen-and-mzee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jura</dc:creator>
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