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Martens Not extinct Source

This really appeals to the raging pedant in me: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/dispatch/story/0,12978,1215038,00.html http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471273961/ [Emp eidt: Helps if I spell weasal right] Emps

No, not an adamantium-clawed Hugh Jackman... :D This week's FT mentions (in passing in the main article on ABCs) that a Wolverine was shot in 1994 in Devon, and there were other sightings and mysterious screams at night which could have been attributed to Wolverines during the 80s and 90s...

I remember reading somewhere or other ages ago about a bit of country folklore that says weasels, stoats, ferrets, polecats and the like have occasionally been known to form a diabolical swarm that sweeps over the countryside bringing red-eyed, sharp-toothed death down upon the heads of all in...