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"....The truth is out there."

-- Dr. Jerome Jackson, 2002 (... & Agent Fox Mulder)

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

-- Hamlet

"All truth passes through 3 stages: First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Thursday, September 30, 2010

-- Mammal Study Lends Readers Hope --

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Readers send along this news release of research from Aussie scientists predicting that a third of "extinct" mammals may yet be rediscovered:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/a-third-of-extinct-mammals-may-still-be-alive/

"It turns out that rumors of the extinction of more than a third of these species have turned out to be premature, the scientists report in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Sept. 29. At least 67 species — a little more than a third of those presumed to be extinct — were later found again. And in most cases, these were animals that had been hardest hit by habitat loss.

"...If the main cause of decline was habitat loss, you are quite likely to be wrong if you say that it’s extinct, unless it was restricted to a very small area.”

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"....The truth is out there."

-- Dr. Jerome Jackson, 2002 (... & Agent Fox Mulder)

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

-- Hamlet

"All truth passes through 3 stages: First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Thursday, September 30, 2010

-- Mammal Study Lends Readers Hope --

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"Nature has her own mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Since the first sighting of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, this has consumed us. We have dedicated our time and our dreams to protecting and conserving this area. These woods are my church."

-- John Fitzpatrick Director, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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"The Ivory-bill LIVES; it makes the sunshine just a little sweeter, doesn't it?"

-- Scott Weidensaul

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"...reports of my death are GREATLY exaggerated."

-- Mark Twain

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=> This work licensed under a
Creative Commons U.S. License <=

==> This website hereby dedi-
cated to the memory of
John V. Dennis and George
H. Lowery Jr., whose
optimism, in the face of
doubt and skepticism, was
never in vain.

"Every man takes the limits of

his own field of vision, for the

limits of the world."

-- A Schhmorgasbord of
Asundry Science Links:

"Nature has her own mode of
doing each thing, and she has
somewhere told it plainly, if
we will keep our eyes and
ears open."

"In nature, improbabilities
are the one stock and trade."

"Since the first sighting of
the Ivory-billed Woodpecker,
this has consumed us. We
have dedicated our time and
our dreams to protecting
and conserving this area.
These woods are my church."

-- John Fitzpatrick Director,
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

"The Ivory-bill LIVES;
it makes the sunshine just a
little sweeter, doesn't it?"

"...reports of my death are
GREATLY exaggerated."