Posted on 03/23/2015 10:27:01 AM PDT by McGruff
Around 5,000 years ago, the island of Madagascar would have resembled a Sci-Fi novel.
Strange, prickly forests, gorilla-sized lemurs, pygmy hippopotamuses, horned crocodile and elephant birds whose eggs were 180 times the size of what you'd find in your fridge today, all called the African island home -- that was until the humans arrived.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
How does it feel to be on the bottom end of the food chain human?
I heard Newman can climb a tree like a ringtail lemur.
Thank God we came along and killed these freakish menaces.
Newman!
***and elephant birds ***
So, HORTON really did hatch the egg!
“eggs were 180 times the size of what you’d find in your fridge today”
Hmmmm..Big Omelette
GIANT LEMURS!!!!??? Quick run for the hills! Bar the doors! Nail boards at irregular angles across the windows!! We’re DOOMED!!
Life on the edge: Inside the world’s largest STONE forest, where tropical rain has eroded rocks...
Daily Mail / Nat Geog | Sunday, April 8, 2012 | Chris Parsons
Posted on 04/10/2012 7:41:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2870550/posts
Heck, that’s nuthin’...
Super-salamander with ‘toilet-seat’ head terrorised Earth 200 million years ago
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/dinosaurs/11489733/Super-salamander-with-toilet-seat-head-terrorised-Earth-200-million-years-ago.html
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