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more about #pets Bill-Lee: I hate it when pets get trendy. It almost never ends well, usually with a huge spike in overcrowded animal shelters and unnecessary euthanasia. more » e30 guy: Are you just saying it's Kenyan lizard because you don't believe it's Hawaiian lizard birth certificate is valid? more » Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: I want a Venom lizard. more » RandomFrequentFlierDent-Hogswatch!: So cute! Although it comes in second on my list of favourite pretty lizards. The flat lizard is still first. more » ManchuCandidate: With great fanboy-dom comes great idiocy. I can't wait for the inevitable stories about these things overwhelming existing wildlife because 'tarded S... more » gorehound: Nearly every African I have run into in the last 10 or so years are deathly afraid of dogs.They will run away in terror from my little Welsh Corgi.I d... more » OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: So who do I ask about fixing the whole "digging out of my fraking yard every time it rains" thing? more » winshape: So....Eurasian Grey Wolf + 15-40K Years = Chihuahua? Darwin's got some 'splaining to do. more » solidbrassfasteners: Is there a reason why there has to be "the" place where humans started to domesticate dogs? I'm not getting why scientists believe they can pinpoint t... more » 92BuickLeSabre: Chalk up one more in the "Theories on Things I Already Thought we Thought" column. more » Stanford Chiou: So he asked his brother and sister-in-law, on honeymoon in Egypt, Uganda and Namibia, to collect DNA samples from hundreds of village dogs. Worst. Bro... more » -
#spiderlizard
Foot-Long Spider-Man Lizard Wants To Join The Legion Of Super-Pets
This Kenyan lizard, the flat-headed rock agama, has become the newest trendy pet because its coloring so closely resembles your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, reports the Daily Telegraph. It can climb walls, but can't spin webs. [Daily Telegraph] -
#evolution
Were Africans The First People To Domesticate Dogs?
Though many believe that domestic dogs originated in Eurasia, new research shows that the human-dog bond may have begun in the cradle of human evolution: Africa. A study published this week cites evidence from the DNA of African village dogs. More »
