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| | Natural History: Fly on the wall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Marvel at the two-pronged claw attached to the appendage projecting in the front--not, it turns out, a weapon for tearing into the flesh of prey, but a fulcrum or pivot point for prying the sticky hairs off a surface and moving on. |
 | | That includes any creature that has mastered the ability to run, fly, breathe, pump blood, or, as in the case of the highly magnified foot of the green dock leaf beetle in our cover image, cling to walls and ceilings. |
 | | In Tyson's fancy, the observant but unseen "fly" is an altogether different kind of alien: a civilization from another star system. |
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