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Mini-Ace of Spades Discovered in Indonesia; Small Band of Eco-Criminals Populated Americas

Because it's SCIENCE!

A team led by a Texas A&M University anthropologist has discovered a group of primates not seen alive in 85 years. The pygmy tarsiers, furry Furby-like, or gremlin-looking, creatures about the size of a small mouse and weighing less than two ounces, have not been observed since they were last collected for a museum in 1921.

Several scientists believed they were extinct until two Indonesian scientists trapping rats in the highlands of Sulawesi accidentally trapped and killed a pygmy tarsier in 2000.

Bury My Heart at Asian Land-Bridge, by Pleistocene Beaver:

Professor Hey, of Rutgers University, was quoted in Live Science as saying his method favoured 'actual genetic data over estimates used in previous calculations'.

He said: 'The estimated effective size of the founding population for the New World is about 70 individuals.'

Archeological evidence supports his calculation that the initial settlement of North America occurred between 12,000 and 14,000 years ago.

He said: 'The beauty of the new methodology is that it uses actual DNA sequences collected from Asian peoples and Native Americans, an approach that can provide a detailed portrait of historical populations.

In honor of Huckabee dropping out (I'm looking at you, Romney), the Ford Huckster, the first "Woody," designed for travelling salesmen to show off their wares: china, kitchenware, brushes . . . whatever.*

Apparently, the term didn't have it's negative connotations at the time, though I think the development of those might have preceded Huckabee.

I love the lozenge window. I think I read somewhere that they had "isinglass windows that could roll right down," in case of a change in the weather.

* It could be fitted out with a midget stripper pole.

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