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To: James Calladine who wrote (5857)	2/15/2006 3:21:10 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) of 36917

I thought God our Father had done all this 5,766 years ago Is this Intelligent Design delayed? Cane toads in Australia develop longer legs: study 55 minutes ago Cane toads in Australia have developed longer legs to enable them to invade more territory, scientists said on Wednesday. The poisonous toads, which are a threat to native species, were introduced into Australia 70 years ago to control insect pests in sugar cane fields. They have since spread across one million square kilometers in the north and east of the country and have become one of the continent's worst environmental disasters. Their territory is likely to get larger because the toads' longer legs make them faster, according to Richard Shine and researchers at the University of Sydney. "We find that toads with longer legs can not only move faster and are the first to arrive in new areas, but also that those at the front have longer legs than toads in older populations," Shine said in a report in the journal Nature. The researchers studied toads leading the invasion about 60 km (37 miles) east of the northern city of Darwin. They discovered that the first toads to arrive in new areas had longer hind legs than those that came later. The scientists believe the toads evolved longer legs to conquer new territory to get to better food supplies. They added that efforts to control the pests should be launched before the toads evolve into even more dangerous adversaries.

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