Then there is Three Ponds.

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Its three fire ponds had been filled in, the local fire engine had disappeared and even the village fire alarm bell had been removed, he wrote.

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Which is why Tim Barraclough and his colleagues at Imperial College, London, spent three years collecting bdelloids from ponds and streams in Britain and Italy.

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