I just wanted to give you all a heads up to a couple of wonderful blogs:
Tetrapod Zoology's post on the lost lynxes and wildcats of Britain, and Catalogue of Organism's post on spiders that lose their lungs.
It's things like these posts that make me wish I had been a proper biologist,
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