RE: Tiktaalik, Great Danes and speciation

["Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Botterweg, Rrp wrote:
> There is at least one well-documented case of a female Dachshund mating 
> with a male St. Bernard (could not have been the other way around ;-)), 
> which is almost as extreme as a Great dane with a Chihuahua.
>
> The female gave birth to live young, which, as far as I know, are also 
> normally fertile.

Holy cow, did it kill the mother? I mean, geez, the pups would have been 
bigger than the mothter ;)

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