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The mites are about as long as a hair is wide.
1 posted on 08/28/2012 8:29:17 AM PDT by null and void
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To: null and void; SunkenCiv

.... something up your alley.


2 posted on 08/28/2012 8:30:57 AM PDT by momtothree
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So can we make dinosaurs now?


3 posted on 08/28/2012 8:34:19 AM PDT by Mr. Impatient (There are no lawyers for pigs.)
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Neat stuff. Makes me itch, though.


4 posted on 08/28/2012 8:34:19 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines RVN 66-67)
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To: null and void; KevinDavis

This is what martian “life” is going to look like when we find it.

Only no amber. Just rock.


5 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)
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"..quite the coincidence, last time I had strange "bugs" I ended up at the vets because of a girl named Amber"

6 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))
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Well there goes two bugs that will never make it to the water to sprout gills and swim away.


8 posted on 08/28/2012 8:51:01 AM PDT by soycd
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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......

9 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....)
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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.


10 posted on 08/28/2012 9:18:43 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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“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.


11 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.)
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Is this really news? Seems a huge percentage of amber sold has a bug in it.


12 posted on 08/28/2012 9:40:25 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Common sense although common knowledge is seldom common practice.)
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Tell her to go to the doctor and get a prescription.


19 posted on 08/28/2012 3:30:52 PM PDT by Ken H
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I find this stuff amazing.


20 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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"The mites are about as long as a hair is wide. "

About 100 microns. (Caucasian hair)

25 posted on 08/28/2012 6:49:03 PM PDT by blam
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