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		<title>Friday mystery object #132</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I have some objects I expect you&#8217;ll identify pretty easily, but I think they&#8217;re interesting and hopefully you will as well: As usual, you can put your suggestions, comments and questions below and I&#8217;ll do my best to respond. Good luck! Tagged: Biology, Friday mystery object, museums, mystery object, Natural history, nature<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paolov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563795&amp;post=2941&amp;subd=paolov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>However you dress it up&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know Christmas has been and gone, so this post is far from breaking news, but I&#8217;ve been meaning to write it ever since I saw this advertisement on a local bus stop: Now although I&#8217;m an atheist, I really don&#8217;t have a problem with the advertisement for any reason beyond the utter banality of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paolov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563795&amp;post=2927&amp;subd=paolov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday mystery object #131 answer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaoloV</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I showed you some specimens that I had to identify in the museum last week, and I asked if you had any idea what they might be: Perhaps unsurprisingly, several of you did have a very good idea. They look a bit bony, but they&#8217;re not bone. They look a bit toothy, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paolov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563795&amp;post=2919&amp;subd=paolov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday mystery object #131</title>
		<link>http://paolov.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/friday-mystery-object-131/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaoloV</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I have some mystery objects that I had to identify earlier this week. Any idea what these things might be? I&#8217;m going to be in Buxton for the day, looking at a mermaid (as is my wont), so I may not be able to respond to comments as usual. That said, I will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paolov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563795&amp;post=2915&amp;subd=paolov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday mystery object #130 answer</title>
		<link>http://paolov.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/friday-mystery-object-130-answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaoloV</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I gave you this specimen to identify: I thought that some of you might find it a bit tricky, since this is a shell from a group of animals that aren&#8217;t that familiar to most people. Barbara Powell was the first to spot what this shell came from and her identification was supported [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paolov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563795&amp;post=2908&amp;subd=paolov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday mystery object #130</title>
		<link>http://paolov.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/friday-mystery-object-130/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaoloV</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I have something from the Horniman&#8217;s collections that some of you will probably be able to identify straight away, whilst others may have a slightly harder time: Any idea what it is? Put your suggestions, comments and questions below and I&#8217;ll do my best to respond. Good luck! Tagged: Biology, Friday mystery object, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paolov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563795&amp;post=2900&amp;subd=paolov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday mystery object #129 answer</title>
		<link>http://paolov.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/friday-mystery-object-129-answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaoloV</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I gave you this object to identify: This type of bone can prove tricky to identify, and we often have queries about them on Ask A Biologist. With a large example like this one there will often be a suspicion that it comes from a human.  However, this is in fact the humerus of a bird &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paolov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563795&amp;post=2888&amp;subd=paolov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday mystery object #129</title>
		<link>http://paolov.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/friday-mystery-object-129/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaoloV</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s mystery object is one that seems to perplex a lot of members of the public when they come across it, so I thought it might be a good test of your identification skills: Any idea what this bone is and what it belonged to? You can put your suggestions, comments and questions below [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paolov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563795&amp;post=2883&amp;subd=paolov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday mystery object #128 answer</title>
		<link>http://paolov.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/friday-mystery-object-128-answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaoloV</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! On Friday I gave you this piece of an animal to identify: As expected, you managed to work out what it is in fairly short order. Jake recognised it as skin, Denis Copilas as scales and Rhea as carapace &#8211; all of which are right at least in part. Henstridgesj and Barbara Powell&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paolov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563795&amp;post=2880&amp;subd=paolov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
		<link>http://paolov.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/2011-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 48,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 18 sold-out performances for that many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paolov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563795&amp;post=2878&amp;subd=paolov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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