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[The Monarch]

Not sure if everyone read this before, but I thought it is a pretty interesting article. Basically, two butterfly species mated and produced a new species in Panama. This was re-confirmed by a team of scientists who successfully managed to re-create this new third species between the two existing species.

Links here:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060614-butterfly.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5080298.stm

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