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		<title>New study suggests that group nesting should be the norm &#8211; not the exception &#8211; in reptiles.</title>
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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>Tuataras do it faster than anyone else.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh yeah, that&#8217;s right. You know what I mean. They evolve&#8230;at the molecular level. From: Trends in Genetics Hay, J., Subramanian, S., Millar, C.D., Mohandesan, E., Lambert, D.M. Rapid molecular evolution in a living fossil. Trends in Genetics Vol. 24 (3): 106-109 Abstract The tuatara of New Zealand is a unique reptile that coexisted with [...]
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