Animal issues
May 10 2007, Smitha

It can fit snugly into the palm of your hand. The uninitiated might even mistake it for a rodent. The opossum has led a relatively quiet existence yet it will forever be recorded in history books as the first marsupial whose DNA code has been completely...

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