From this weeks news....
In research published in May in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biologist Brian Langerhans and colleagues found that large genitals in some fish species (such as the western and Bahamas mosquito fish) represent evolutionary pluses and minuses.
Apparently, females prefer well-endowed partners, but on the other hand, well-hung males tend to have shorter life spans because , weighted down as they are, they can not swim away from predators as nimbly as can mosquito fish with smaller endowments.
[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Press release) 5-10-05]
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Exactly how bored a scientist do you have to be when you decided to a study about mosquito fish ?
Except of course if there was a free trip to the bahama's into it
By the way... I'm trying to get a grant to go study sand in Hawaii !
Except of course if there was a free trip to the bahama's into it
By the way... I'm trying to get a grant to go study sand in Hawaii !
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I understand. How much do you think bored a scientist do you have to be when you decided to a study about mosquito fish is? Can you name an old hobby that you might like to rediscover?
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Exactly how bored a scientist do you have to be when you decided to a study about mosquito fish ?
Except of course if there was a free trip to the bahama's into it
By the way... I'm trying to get a grant to go study sand in Hawaii !
Except of course if there was a free trip to the bahama's into it
By the way... I'm trying to get a grant to go study sand in Hawaii !
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The Doctor : … and then, just to finish off, I’m going to wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky !
Dalek : But you have no weapons ! No defenses ! No plan !
The Doctor : Yeah ! And doesn’t that scare you to death ?
The Doctor : … and then, just to finish off, I’m going to wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky !
Dalek : But you have no weapons ! No defenses ! No plan !
The Doctor : Yeah ! And doesn’t that scare you to death ?
