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This is the same process that occurs over tens of thousands, even millions of years in living creatures, from slugs to dogs to you and me, producing the incredible diversity we see in the tree of life along with startling replays of the same idea, known formally as convergent evolution.

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This destroys marine ecosystems by eating away at the minerals used by aquatic animals like lobsters, crabs, clams, oysters, shrimp, corals and other living creatures of that nature to build their shells and skeletons.

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Unless there is a strikingly stacked species of mammal out there no one has seen yet, humans are the only living creatures we know of to have permanent fatty breasts.

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"People are so cruel to pigeons; they don't see them as living creatures," says Hannah.

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For centuries, the Greek Gorgon Medusa has been cast as a vicious monster, a beastly woman with writhing snakes for hair and a deadly gaze that turns living creatures to stone.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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