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I seem to remember looking into this a while ago and the human genome isn't really as big as I thought it was. According to this nature page there are 3.4 billion base pairs and since each is only one of 4 values it takes 2-bits per base pair to encode so the entire genome is only 850,000,000 bytes which is 810.6MB (1,048,576 bytes/MB). I don't know about you but the cost to 'store' this in my mind is essentially nothing. There are a ton of places on the web that will easily offer 1GB of storage for free, 1GB USB sticks are frequently given away and if you buy a current HD (non-SSD) the cost of 1GB is less than $0.15.

I welcome the day when sequencing a genome costs less than $0.15...

There are a number of appropriate museums in Ottawa Ontario Canada.

Canadian Museum of Civilization
100 Laurier Street, Gatineau Quebec
http://www.civilization.ca/

Canada Science and Technology Museum
1867 St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa Ontario
http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/

Canada Aviation Museum
11 Aviation Parkway, Ottawa, Ontario
http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/

Canada Agriculture Museum
Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
http://www.agriculture.technomuses.ca/

Canadian Museum of Nature
240 McLeod Street, Ottawa Ontario
http://www.nature.ca/

Diefenbunker Canada's Cold War Museum
3911 Carp Road, Carp Ontario
http://www.diefenbunker.ca/

Canadian War Museum
1 Vimy Place, Ottawa Ontario
http://www.warmuseum.ca/

National Gallery of Canada
380 Sussex Dr., Ottawa Ontario
http://www.gallery.ca/

I probably shouldn't have bothered, as posting AC on slashdot is like pissing into the wind, but at least you can't be banned from posting altogether, as registered users can be. (by other users at that - nuts... I'll never figure that one out - sadism perhaps?)

We haven't? Damn; and I always thought we had:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_anima ls
[I am no expert, but this seems incomplete]

http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/enexpg.htm
[some more]

Yeah I know, all a bunch of left-wing, anti-american tree-hugging eggheads; they probably just haven't looked hard enough. Just because you can't find any members of a certain species does not necessarily mean it is extinct, right?
LOL:-)

Castoroides ohioensis

I wouldn't class fighting against a herbivore at all as fair, but go figure.

The Cape Buffalo is considered by many to be the most dangerous game species in the world, and it's an herbivore. Hippos are very aggressive and territorial; rhinos are notoriously foul-tempered. Both are herbivores. Even a whitetail deer will attack you if it's cornered.

Baboon

Chimp

Although the big males of the troop are pretty big, they're still 7 kg smaller than big male chimps.

I still wouldn't wanna mess with one, though.

Baboon

Chimp

Although the big males of the troop are pretty big, they're still 7 kg smaller than big male chimps.

I still wouldn't wanna mess with one, though.

Gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) breed on subantarctic islands and on the Antarctic Peninsula in small to large colonies. Larger populations of gentoo penguins are found at South Georgia, the Falkland Islands and the Iles Kerguelen.

Gentoo penguins are the least abundant of the penguins found on the subantarctic islands, with a total breeding population of approximately 314 000 pairs.

Unlike other penguin species, gentoo penguins may breed as early as two years of age.

The gentoo penguin is a medium sized penguin, standing 75-90cm tall and the females are smaller than the male birds.