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Toothy 3-foot Piranha Fossil Found
livescience ^
| 25 June 2009
Posted on 06/26/2009 10:35:00 AM PDT by JoeProBono
If you thought piranhas were scary, be glad Megapiranha is no longer around. Megapiranha was up to 3 feet long (1 meter) a fish-beast four times as big as piranhas living today, studies of its jawbones indicate. It lived about 8 million to 10 million years ago and might have been quite comfortable stalking cartoon animals in an "Ice Age" movie.
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: creation; evolution; piranha
To: JoeProBono
Were going to need a bigger boat.
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posted on
06/26/2009 10:36:25 AM PDT
by
BigCinBigD
('When a man believes that any stick will do, he at once picks up a boomerang,')
To: BigCinBigD
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posted on
06/26/2009 10:37:39 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Obviously a transitional fossil, as the fish evolved to be a land-dweller. Just needed to evolve 1 more foot.
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posted on
06/26/2009 10:38:05 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(We are a ruled people, serfs to the Federal Oligarchy -- and the Tree of Liberty thirsts)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
06/26/2009 10:39:21 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
What is the top pictured monster?
To: BOBTHENAILER
Have no idea
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posted on
06/26/2009 10:42:53 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/26/2009 10:44:48 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: JoeProBono
"If you thought piranhas were scary, be glad Megapiranha is no longer around. Megapiranha was up to 3 feet long "He'd be no match for the she-piranha, Nancy Pilosi.
To: JoeProBono
JAWS
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posted on
06/26/2009 10:51:21 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
("Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal ( Martin Luther King))
To: JoeProBono
Sniff, I smell a Hollywood C-movie in the works!
To: Clock King
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posted on
06/26/2009 11:04:35 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: SunkenCiv
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06/26/2009 11:12:00 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: silverleaf
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