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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/09/16/2365110.htm?site=science&topic=enviro"><H1><SPAN>Hello, it's a new species of Pacific iguana</SPAN></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/09/16/2365110.htm?site=science&topic=enviro"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.abc.net.au/img/F23E0D3C-7681-4B63-A93B-E0C8D1188DD8" alt="iguana Brachylophus bulabula" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/09/16/2365110.htm?site=science&topic=enviro"><P class="first">A new species of Pacific iguana has been uncovered by Australian and US researchers, but already its future is looking grim.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/09/16/2365110.htm?site=science&topic=enviro"><P>In a paper published online in the <A target="_blank" href="http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/102022/"><EM>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B</EM></A>, the team shows there are three living species of <EM>Brachylophus</EM> iguanas, not two as indicated in current taxonomy.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/09/16/2365110.htm?site=science&topic=enviro"><P>The new species is named <EM>Brachylophus bulabula</EM> after the Fijian word for hello.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/09/16/2365110.htm?site=science&topic=enviro"><P>"In the reptile world the Fijian iguanas are iconic," says lead author Associate Professor Scott Keogh, of the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.anu.edu.au/">Australian National University</A>'s School of Botany and Zoology.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; 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border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/09/16/2365110.htm?site=science&topic=enviro"><P>Two species of the iguana are already extinct, having been eaten out of existence about 2800 years ago by the earliest arrivals on the island, Keogh says.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D5D29763-663B-42F6-938F-F763D5489EEA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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