鈥淚 believe the fins may be remains from the time when dolphins鈥� ancient ancestors lived on land鈥� this is an unprecedented discovery.鈥�
Seiji Osumi, of Tokyo鈥檚 Institute of Cetacean Research, on a bottlenose dolphin with an extra fin either side of its tail, captured off western Japan. (The Japan Times, Tokyo, 6 November)
鈥淲e should cooperate with others rather than reinventing the rocket.鈥�
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Raja Mohan, strategic affairs editor of The Indian Express, on India鈥檚 aspirations to send astronauts to the moon by 2020. (The Guardian, London, 3 November)
鈥淲hile 24 million people in China live in abject poverty and suffer malnutrition, 60 million Chinese are obese.鈥�
Pan Beilei, of the State Food and Nutrition Consultant Committee, China, on how rising affluence has been blamed for the increase in consumption of junk food. (Xinhua news agency, 6 November)
鈥淗ow would you feel if you were telling a patient they had lunatic fringe 尘耻迟补迟颈辞苍?鈥�
Sue Povey, of the Human Genome Organisation Gene Nomenclature Committee, on the need to rename genes first discovered in fruitflies now deemed potentially offensive, pejorative and inappropriate for use in humans. (Nature.com, 6 November)
鈥淭here is nothing worse than seeing an animal with a burnt face, blind and fleeing. It鈥檚 extremely, extremely threatening.鈥�
Jennifer Miller, of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, which is helping to recover and treat orang utans wounded after they fled land-clearing fires in Borneo. Up to 1000 orang utans are reported to have died. (The Washington Post, 6 November)