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Publication of the genome of the North American green anole lizard has filled a yawning genome-sequence gap in the animal lineage. The paper, which appears today in Nature , is the first to sequence the genome of a non-avian reptile. "This fills out a clade that has been completely ignored before," says lead author Jessica Alf

Nobody goes to McDonald's in the U.S. expecting to buy chicken nuggets made out of healthy, fairly-treated chickens; they just want crunchy nuggets, no questions asked.

_ Plastics have a lot of issues--made from oil, they're often not recycled, and they end up in landfills. You might not consider soft, fluffy chicken feathers as problematic, but billions pounds of them end up in U.S.