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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    It's a great story and Ed Yong tells it well.

    The 'seals in Vietnamese forests' thing involved some local Kunming folks :)
     
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    I found Y. pestis while identifying natural fauna in raw milk here by PCR. A minor part of the project, so weren't confirming the results beyond that.
     
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    In Papua New Guinea there is a weevil that (somehow) provides a nice setting for lichen to grow on its back (wing covers, elytra):

    Lichen weevils PNG.jpg
    There is a nicer version of this artistic representation elsewhere on web, but that file does not open reliably.

    I call 'amazing' here because lichens are notoriously slow growers, and insects rarely live long as adults.
     
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