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<title>EU Politics Today: EU Animal Fur News</title>
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<title>Zoo team get their teeth into panda talks</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=168740281</link>
<pubDate>12 May 2008 01:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  them joining just three other zoos in Europe holding the mammals. Upon arriving at the  ...  reserve is bustling with keepers cleaning the animals&apos; homes and setting out fresh bamboo. Most  ...  one. He smiles and gestures &quot;yes&quot;. Their fur is very dense and coarse, but soft.  ...
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<title>How the world&apos;s oceans are running out of fish</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=168654039</link>
<pubDate>10 May 2008 23:45 GMT</pubDate>
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...  sells more fish than anywhere else in Europe. Anyone who cares about where their fish  ...  industrial trawler fleets in. Since 1979 the EU has negotiated deals on fishing rights with  ...  in 1911 to regulate the hunting of fur seals on the Pribilof Islands. So why  ...
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<title>Sequencing Of The Platypus Genome Reveals The Early History Of Mammals</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=168633632</link>
<pubDate>10 May 2008 16:21 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Functional Genomics Unit in Oxford and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory&apos;s European Bioinformatics Institute in  ...  of the one of the world&apos;s strangest mammals. They have analysed the DNA blueprint of  ...  unique to mammals; for example it has fur and rears its young on milk. However,  ...
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<title>Platypus&apos; wacky genome a window to evolution Quirks include 10 chromosomes...</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=168571110</link>
<pubDate>10 May 2008 00:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in 1799 - one with a mole&apos;s fur, a duck&apos;s bill and spurs on its  ...  as to the genuine nature of the animal,&quot; Shaw wrote of the seemingly built-by-committee creature,  ...  50 years,&quot; said Ewan Birney of the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, England, which was  ...
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<title>The platypus&apos; wacky genome</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=168541432</link>
<pubDate>9 May 2008 20:45 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in 1799 - one with a mole&apos;s fur, a duck&apos;s bill and spurs on its  ...  as to the genuine nature of the animal,&quot; Shaw wrote of the seemingly built-by-committee creature,  ...  50 years,&quot; said Ewan Birney of the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, England, which was  ...
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<title>Platypus&apos; wacky genome a window to evolution</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=168495707</link>
<pubDate>9 May 2008 14:12 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in 1799 - one with a mole&apos;s fur, a duck&apos;s bill and spurs on its  ...  as to the genuine nature of the animal,&quot; Shaw wrote of the seemingly built-by-committee creature,  ...  50 years,&quot; said Ewan Birney of the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, England, which was  ...
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<title>Evolution</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=168475843</link>
<pubDate>9 May 2008 10:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  earliest reptiles and mammals. It has thick fur and produces milk for its young, yet  ...  discovered in Australia in 1798, the beaver-tailed animal caused such bemusement that the zoologist George  ...  co-author on the paper, based at the European Bioinformatics Institute, near Cambridge. &quot;In theory it  ...
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<title>Asthmatics Can Lead A Normal Life, Says Doc</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=168461458</link>
<pubDate>9 May 2008 08:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  different set of risk factors such as animal fur, dust, strong smells and sprays, pollen from  ...  but even in regions such as Western Europe and North America asthma in under treated  ...
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<title>In platypus, scientists find a curious genetic mix</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=168416828</link>
<pubDate>9 May 2008 00:45 GMT</pubDate>
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...  produces milk and has a coat of fur like a mammal, what could the genetics of the duck-billed  ...  when the first specimens were sent to Europe in the 19th century, scientists suspected a  ...
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<title>Platypus looks strange on the inside, too</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=168416803</link>
<pubDate>9 May 2008 00:45 GMT</pubDate>
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...  produces milk and has a coat of fur like a mammal, what could the genetics of the duck-billed  ...  when the first specimens were sent to Europe in the 19th century, scientists suspected a  ...
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<title>Platypus&apos; Genetic Mystery Solved</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=168400513</link>
<pubDate>8 May 2008 22:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in Canberra. &quot;The platypus genome, like the animal itself, is an amazing amalgam of reptile-like  ...  when the first stuffed specimens arrived in Europe at the end of the 18th century,  ...  mammal because its body is covered in fur and it also produces milk, which the  ...
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<title>Platypus even odder than science thought</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=168369368</link>
<pubDate>8 May 2008 18:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  earliest reptiles and mammals. It has thick fur and produces milk for its young, yet  ...  discovered in Australia in 1798, the beaver-tailed animal caused such bemusement that the zoologist George  ...  co-author on the paper, based at the European Bioinformatics Institute, near Cambridge. &quot;In theory it  ...
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<title>Platypus Genome: Neither Fish Nor Fowl</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=168340692</link>
<pubDate>8 May 2008 15:12 GMT</pubDate>
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...  from spare parts left over after the animal kingdom was otherwise complete. Now scientists know  ...  when the first stuffed specimens arrived in Europe at the end of the 18th century,  ...  and is covered in coat of thick fur, once prized by hunters. Lacking teats, the  ...
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<title>Platypus genome 166m years old</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=168316692</link>
<pubDate>8 May 2008 11:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the early history of mammals, when furry animals had reptilian features. The duck-billed platypus ,  ...  produces milk and has a coat of fur. Venom But the platypus also lays eggs  ...  Glenrock Station, New South Wales, Australia. When European experts first laid eyes on a duck-billed  ...
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<title>Protesters who snarled traffic arrested in New York City</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=168311533</link>
<pubDate>8 May 2008 11:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  interest rate unchanged on Thursday, and the European Central Bank was expected to do likewise  ...  the platypus _ one of nature&apos;s strangest animals with a bill like a duck&apos;s, a mammal&apos;s fur and sna... ...
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