Iguana's a reptile...
dunno about chameleons...
Posted on 11/09/2004 10:34:10 AM PST by Willie Green
A University of Pittsburgh freshman geology student on a field trip stumbled across the fossil of an oversized, salamander-like creature with vicious crocodile-like teeth that lived about 300 million years ago, paleontologists said.
The student picked up the softball-sized rock containing the fossil on a visit to a fresh road cut near Pittsburgh International Airport, and thinking it was of little interest, threw it aside. On a walk back through the same area, he picked up the object again and showed it to class lecturer Charles Jones.
Jones spotted the teeth first, then the outline of a skull.
"It was immediately clear that this was rare," Jones said yesterday.
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Oh no, what do we do with "Striegeli' jokes. Do we start with Democrats or Dr. Mengele? Why not just combine the two and go from there.?:)
Iguana's a reptile...
dunno about chameleons...
Too easy.
That old fossil doesn't have any teeth, and more closely resembles a bullfrog.
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