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Spectacular specimen: This bug's a big one - 8 feet long - and New Mexico scientists nabbed...
Albuquerque Tribune ^
| April 14, 2005
| Sue Vorenberg
Posted on 04/22/2005 12:50:39 PM PDT by demlosers
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GEOLOGIC TIME
Pennsylvanian Period: 325 to 280 million years ago, a time of giant bugs. First reptiles appear. The land is covered with ferns and coal swamps.
Permian Period: 280 to 248 million years ago. Amphibians and reptiles dominate the landscape. Pangea supercontinent forms.
Triassic Period: 248 to 208 million years ago. The first dinosaurs and mammals appear.
Jurassic Period: 208 to 146 million years ago. Giant dinosaurs dominate the landscape.
Cretaceous Period: 146 to 65 million years ago. Dinosaurs continue to dominate. The first feathered dinosaurs appear. Dinosaurs go extinct at the end of the period.
Andy Heckert of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science stands next to a model of an arthropleura - a 300-million-year-old insect that could be distantly related to today's tiny millipede.
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posted on
04/22/2005 12:50:41 PM PDT
by
demlosers
To: demlosers
=8-0
Glad it's extinct. There ain't enough Die-Bug-Die on the entire planet for that puppy...
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posted on
04/22/2005 12:53:32 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: demlosers
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posted on
04/22/2005 12:53:59 PM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
(The MRS wanted to go to an expensive place to eat so I took her to the gas station.)
To: demlosers
EEEEW! Gross, disgusting, nightmares!!!
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posted on
04/22/2005 12:54:37 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Pope Benedict XVI: The Rat-Zinger!)
To: demlosers
Looks like it would taste like a giant LOBSTER..........
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posted on
04/22/2005 12:54:47 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Entrepreneurs find a need and fill it. Politicians create need and fill it........)
To: demlosers
Sid Blumental meets Kafka...
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posted on
04/22/2005 12:54:56 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Drooling moron since 1998...)
To: demlosers
Good grief! My wife can't even stand the small three inch version... I'm glad this thing is extinct, or she would never go down in our basement for the laundry. LOL
To: demlosers
Today, you can squish the tiny bugs, but 300 million years ago, 8-foot-long millipedes were in control of the landscape, and humans weren't even a gleam in evolution's eye.
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posted on
04/22/2005 12:55:16 PM PDT
by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
To: demlosers
Looks like the creature from Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn.
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
May I suggest an upstairs laundry room? You just get an emergency-drainage thingie to put under the washer!
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posted on
04/22/2005 12:56:08 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Pope Benedict XVI: The Rat-Zinger!)
To: demlosers
If that bug's 8 feet long, the scientist holding him should be an NBA center.
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posted on
04/22/2005 12:56:18 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dirtboy
It looks like that guy is going kootchy kootchy koo...
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posted on
04/22/2005 12:56:30 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: Constitution Day; martin_fierro
They're perfect for making those 6' long party subs.
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posted on
04/22/2005 12:56:42 PM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Holding out for a Slim-centric Universe.)
To: newgeezer
Quibbles! It's a hugh, disgusting bug, however you date it!
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posted on
04/22/2005 12:56:59 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Pope Benedict XVI: The Rat-Zinger!)
To: PatrickHenry
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posted on
04/22/2005 12:58:05 PM PDT
by
general_re
("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
To: demlosers
Can I get fries with that?
To: demlosers
Ridiculous. Everyone knows the universe is only 6,000 years old.
And how exactly did Noah get that thing on the Ark?
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posted on
04/22/2005 12:59:04 PM PDT
by
gdani
To: demlosers
"Breathing, food, locomotion are all problematic for a bug that big," Lucas said. "When the world changed, they just couldn't adapt."
Undoubtedly it was all .... BUSH's FAULT!
:-)
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posted on
04/22/2005 12:59:40 PM PDT
by
Condor51
(Leftists are moral and intellectual parasites - Standing Wolf)
To: gdani
And how exactly did Noah get that thing on the Ark?And how did he tell the boys from the girls?
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posted on
04/22/2005 1:00:28 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: demlosers
Here's an artist's rendering of what one might have looked like, ambling through the ferns. Remember...it's at least 6' long"
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posted on
04/22/2005 1:00:56 PM PDT
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
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