The World’s Last Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication

Re:The World’s Last Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication by jfb on Sunday July 15, 2012 @08:31PM (#4248731)

They don't. The caloric expenditure required to survive in a desert like that is only available to humanity.

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Re:The World’s Last Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication by Karunamon on Sunday July 15, 2012 @08:49PM (#4248783)

And bears.. and penguins.. and lemmings..

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Re:The World’s Last Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication by chc on Monday July 16, 2012 @11:12AM (#4251013)

You appear to have the Arctic and Antarctic confused. They're opposite ends of the world. There aren't any bears or lemmings in Antarctica at all. And there are penguins in the region, but they're amphibious rather than really being stuck on Antarctica.

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Re:The World’s Last Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication by jfb on Sunday July 15, 2012 @09:00PM (#4248825)

Well, you're ⅓ there, considering that there are no terrestrial mammals in Antarctica. But I was talking about weed species, not those particularly evolved for a given niche.

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