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PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Bizarre Giant-Headed Predator Found
National Geographic ^
| March 19, 2009
| Christine Dell'Amore
Posted on 03/19/2009 6:05:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Not being a jerk but doesn’t that thing look tasty? Like in jambalaya or that New Orleans thing with crawfish.
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:07:37 PM PDT
by
exist
To: nickcarraway
Put a “black widow” dress on it and it could pass for Michele.
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:07:44 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jazzy
(No greater friend, no worse enemy -The United States Marine Corps.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:08:03 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: nickcarraway
Daley speculates that the shield acted as a feeding aid, funneling prey toward the animal's appendages.I would speculate it folded within itself, like an aadvark, for protection.
To: nickcarraway
Another Burgess Shale beastie.
12 to 16 inches, but wasn’t Anomalocaris an even bigger predator?
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:09:52 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: Puppage
LOLOL!!! I was expecting this to be post #1.....
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:09:56 PM PDT
by
gimme1ibertee
("No pale pastels,but bold colors".....Ronnie,we sure do miss you,sir!)
To: exist
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:10:33 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: nickcarraway
"PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Bizarre Giant-Headed Predator Found"
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:12:33 PM PDT
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Mad Dawgg
(will work for Bailout Bonus.... Twitter: maddawggmorgan)
To: gimme1ibertee
I was expecting this to be post #1.....I was a tad late get'n here.
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:12:53 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: nickcarraway
SHRIMPZILLA
To: nickcarraway
The 505-million-year-old critter How do we know if its not really 506 million years old?
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:15:02 PM PDT
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BRL
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:16:24 PM PDT
by
Lady GOP
To: nickcarraway
I was sure it was going to be Michelle Obama....
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:16:26 PM PDT
by
supremedoctrine
("One was drawing funny faces, but his own was grave"--Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica)
To: BRL
"How do we know if its not really 506 million years old? First hand testimony from one Helen Thomas, Washington DC.
To: exist; nickcarraway; DaveLoneRanger
Hungry, eh? What you see there, like many restaurant menus, is merely an airbrushed figment of some chef's intelligent design alleged "scientist's" fevered pro-evolutionary-premise imagination...
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:19:26 PM PDT
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
To: nickcarraway
Giant-Headed Eared Predator Found And he ran for president.
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:19:54 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(and a child shall lead them)
To: sinanju
It was, but since there are few known creatures from this time period, and even fewer that were this big, they can still say it was one of the largest (known).
Also, this thing bears more than a small resemblance to Anomalocaris as well, note the appendages under the head, near the (presumed) location of the mouth.
If you haven’t yet seen it, the BBC “Walking with...” series has one episode called “Walking with monsters” that looks at the Cambrian period, including Anomalocaris, along with the Carboniferous period, and the advent of the “mammal-like” reptiles like Dimetrodon and Diictodont. It’s well worth it, even though the producers took some liberties with the animals in the area of behaviors (since we have no idea what they really did). I would have liked to see some of the other Burgess creatures like Wiwaxia and Hallucinogenia
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:20:31 PM PDT
by
Little Pig
(Is it time for "Cowboys and Islamofanatics" yet?)
To: exist
Not being a jerk but doesn’t that thing look tasty? Like in jambalaya or that New Orleans thing with crawfish.
Oooooweeee! I'm wit you cher!
To: Mad Dawgg
Please, a nicer man you will not find. Can’t you post Keith Oberself or some other flimflam liberal, not conservative, gentleman, Neil Cavuto?
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:32:18 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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