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A cracking discovery.

Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:13 pm

Ancient DNA from Fossil Eggshells May Provide Clues to Eggstinction of Giant Birds
grrlscientist wrote:...An international team of scientists just published a paper demonstrating for the first time that fossil eggshells are a rich source of DNA...
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Here's hoping this eggcellent discovery will lead to new avenues of research, and help free us from the yolk of ignorance. :what?:
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Re: A cracking discovery.

Post by Tigger » Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:22 pm

Where's Bella? Puns're'ere.
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Re: A cracking discovery.

Post by hackenslash » Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:27 pm

Ovum my dead body!
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Re: A cracking discovery.

Post by Tigger » Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:41 pm

Shell be along in a minute.
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Post by hackenslash » Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:45 pm

Give me a shout, albumen the other forum.
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Re: A cracking discovery.

Post by Elessarina » Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:46 pm

Zy got no puns...
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Re: A cracking discovery.

Post by Tigger » Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:57 pm

Don't encourage Bella with puns; give her an "in", chalaza mile.

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Re: A cracking discovery.

Post by Conny » Thu Mar 18, 2010 2:50 pm

She is supposed to be an Egg-sample to us all!
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Re: A cracking discovery.

Post by drl2 » Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:17 pm

I bet it won't go over easy when the people who run the site that article was poached from see the Grade A thread they've been linked from. On the other hand, maybe it will bring new visitors to their site by the dozen.


(Or, pop-culture reference version:)

<Walks uninvited into presentation of eggshell data>

Omelette you finish, but frozen dinosaur tissue was the best source of fossil DNA ever!
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Re: A cracking discovery.

Post by cowiz » Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:18 pm

Ate the puns ova yet?
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Post by Nautilidae » Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:28 pm

Eggscuse me, but no one is able to eggnore the fact that this is a eggcelent discovery.
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Post by Conny » Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:15 pm

puns will continue until complaints come to the boil.
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