* Posts by Ian Stuart

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Yangtze river dolphin is an ex-cetacean

Ian Stuart

... and in other news

"An expedition to a remote forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo has uncovered six new animal species."

Nothing stands still, things come and go.

Some things mutate and evolve, other die out because of "natural selection" (or even Human-assisted natural selection)

Personally, we should be concerned that this has happened. Not because some species as croaked (forgive the pun), but because whatever knocked off the dolphin is probably also trying to knock off humans

(mind you, China's not exactly short when it comes to people-supplies)