Monday, December 22, 2008

Croc Update (Three for the Price of One Edition)

African dwarf crocodile is actually three distinct species | Entertainment and Showbiz!: "By looking at the genes of the African dwarf crocodile, scientists have found that the group comprises of three distinct species rather than one.

The analysis was done by a team from the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History.

This not only ends a long debate about the taxonomy of this group, previously thought to consist of two closely related subspecies, but also defines a new, distinct species from genetic samples."

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