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Entry: What's So Scary About Evolution?--For Both Left and Right, a Lot Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/whats_so_scarry_about_evolution#27316 Post contents: Rats!, Ken Derb seems to have frends in high places at _Nature_,witness its blog : Super-evolved mega-mice threaten island birds - May 20, 2008 Birds on Gough Island in the South Atlantic are being threatened by an invasive population of mice. Not just any mice though, as the Guardian reports... What is horrifying ornithgologists [sic] is that the humble house mouse which landed on Gough has somehow evolved to two or even three times the size of an ordinary British house mice [sic2], and instead of being a vegetarian, eating insects and seeds, has adapted itself to become a carnivore, eating albatross, petrel and shearwater chicks alive in their nests. They are now believed to be the largest mice found anywhere in the world. The mice, which sometimes attack bird nests in groups, are completely out of control, the paper warns. This story first surfaced in 2005 but it has been given added legs now that two birds from the island, the Tristan albatross and the Gough Bunting, have been listed as critically endangered on the IUCN’s Red List Continue reading "Super-evolved mega-mice threaten island birds" » Sent at: 2008 12 01