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Prehistoric tiny bugs found trapped in amber
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| 8/28/12
| SETH BORENSTEIN
Posted on 08/28/2012 8:29:13 AM PDT by null and void
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The mites are about as long as a hair is wide.
To: null and void; SunkenCiv
.... something up your alley.
To: null and void
So can we make dinosaurs now?
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posted on
08/28/2012 8:34:19 AM PDT
by
Mr. Impatient
(There are no lawyers for pigs.)
To: null and void
Neat stuff. Makes me itch, though.
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posted on
08/28/2012 8:34:19 AM PDT
by
ComputerGuy
(HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines RVN 66-67)
To: null and void; KevinDavis
This is what martian “life” is going to look like when we find it.
Only no amber. Just rock.
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posted on
08/28/2012 8:34:53 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: null and void
"..quite the coincidence, last time I had strange "bugs" I ended up at the vets because of a girl named Amber"
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posted on
08/28/2012 8:35:51 AM PDT
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
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posted on
08/28/2012 8:47:31 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; w/ different flie$" :^)
To: null and void
Well there goes two bugs that will never make it to the water to sprout gills and swim away.
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08/28/2012 8:51:01 AM PDT
by
soycd
To: null and void
And when Grimaldi compared the ancient mites to their modern day descendants, he was surprised about how similar they are. Except for difference in the mouth and fewer legs, "they're dead ringers for (modern) gall mites," he said. Hmmmm......
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posted on
08/28/2012 8:56:25 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
To: null and void
I have several pieces of polished Baltic amber that contain a mosquito and an ant. Their preservation is perfect. Looking at them through a stereo (3D) microscope, I can see no obvious differences from modern specimens. They cause me to wonder how old that amber really is.
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posted on
08/28/2012 9:18:43 AM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: null and void
“they’re dead ringers for (modern) gall mites,”
What? You mean they haven’t “evolved” into something else?
Millions of generations and the mites are still mites.
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posted on
08/28/2012 9:37:49 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: null and void
Is this really news? Seems a huge percentage of amber sold has a bug in it.
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posted on
08/28/2012 9:40:25 AM PDT
by
stocksthatgoup
(Common sense although common knowledge is seldom common practice.)
To: TexasRepublic
"I have several pieces of polished Baltic amber that contain a mosquito and an ant....They cause me to wonder how old that amber really is." I have some plastic ice cubes that contain a housefly. I bought them at Spencer gifts when I was in high school so I know they're over 20 years old.
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posted on
08/28/2012 9:43:33 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: count-your-change
As long as we have an ecological niche for mites, we’ll have mites.
Do you ask, “If the human race came out of Africa, why do we still have Africans?”
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posted on
08/28/2012 9:54:43 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1317 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
To: Mr. Impatient
So can we make dinosaurs now?Not yet.
Patience, my FRiend, patience...
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posted on
08/28/2012 9:57:59 AM PDT
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null and void
(Day 1317 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
To: null and void
“Do you ask, “If the human race came out of Africa, why do we still have Africans?”
No, I ask what is the essential difference between an African and an Eskimo and find little.
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posted on
08/28/2012 11:19:30 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: count-your-change
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posted on
08/28/2012 11:23:47 AM PDT
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null and void
(Day 1317 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
To: momtothree; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
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Thanks momtothree.
It's been a while since we had one about this, so...
A "Look Back in Amber" ping. They are about 230 million years old, which puts them in the Triassic time period, and about 100 million years older than what had been the previously known oldest critters trapped in fossilized tree resin, or amber. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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posted on
08/28/2012 3:19:57 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: null and void
Tell her to go to the doctor and get a prescription.
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posted on
08/28/2012 3:30:52 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: null and void
I find this stuff amazing.
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posted on
08/28/2012 3:39:38 PM PDT
by
Gator113
(I would have voted for NEWT, now it's Ryan and the other guy.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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