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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Rick Weiss / The Bulletin
May 8, 2008
When the British naturalist George Shaw received a weird specimen from Australia in 1799 — one with a mole’s fur, a duck’s bill and spurs on its rear legs — he did what any skeptical scientist would do: He looked for the stitching and glue that would....
