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Paired photographs of elephant shrew with elephant; tree shrew with gorilla; antechinus with kangaroo; true shrew with blue whale. Caption: “Each of the small shrew-like mammals shown here is more closely related to the large mammal that it's paired with than to the other small shrew-like mammals.”

In this context "is more closedly related to" means "has a more recent common ancestor with.”

Elephant and elephant shrew represent clade Afrotheria; gorilla and tree shrew, Euarchontoglires; kangaroo and antechinus, Marsupialia; whale and true shrew, Laurasiatheria.

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Map of the Milky Way Galaxy with the constellations that cross the galactic plane in each direction and the known most prominent components annotated including main arms, spurs, bar, nucleus/bulge, and notable nebulae.

Author: Pablo Carlos Budassi

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What European language am I reading? European language flowchart.

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So long ago, in the basement of Scott Hall...