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GEOLOGIC TIME

Pennsylvanian Period: 325 to 280 million years ago, a time of giant bugs. First reptiles appear. The land is covered with ferns and coal swamps.

Permian Period: 280 to 248 million years ago. Amphibians and reptiles dominate the landscape. Pangea supercontinent forms.

Triassic Period: 248 to 208 million years ago. The first dinosaurs and mammals appear.

Jurassic Period: 208 to 146 million years ago. Giant dinosaurs dominate the landscape.

Cretaceous Period: 146 to 65 million years ago. Dinosaurs continue to dominate. The first feathered dinosaurs appear. Dinosaurs go extinct at the end of the period.


Andy Heckert of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science stands next to a model of an arthropleura - a 300-million-year-old insect that could be distantly related to today's tiny millipede.

1 posted on 04/22/2005 12:50:41 PM PDT by demlosers
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Glad it's extinct. There ain't enough Die-Bug-Die on the entire planet for that puppy...

2 posted on 04/22/2005 12:53:32 PM PDT by mewzilla
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To: demlosers

Land of the Lost ping


3 posted on 04/22/2005 12:53:59 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (The MRS wanted to go to an expensive place to eat so I took her to the gas station.)
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To: demlosers

EEEEW! Gross, disgusting, nightmares!!!


4 posted on 04/22/2005 12:54:37 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Pope Benedict XVI: The Rat-Zinger!)
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To: demlosers

Looks like it would taste like a giant LOBSTER..........


5 posted on 04/22/2005 12:54:47 PM PDT by Red Badger (Entrepreneurs find a need and fill it. Politicians create need and fill it........)
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To: demlosers

Sid Blumental meets Kafka...

6 posted on 04/22/2005 12:54:56 PM PDT by dirtboy (Drooling moron since 1998...)
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To: demlosers

Good grief! My wife can't even stand the small three inch version... I'm glad this thing is extinct, or she would never go down in our basement for the laundry. LOL


7 posted on 04/22/2005 12:55:10 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: demlosers
Today, you can squish the tiny bugs, but 300 million years ago, 8-foot-long millipedes were in control of the landscape, and humans weren't even a gleam in evolution's eye.


8 posted on 04/22/2005 12:55:16 PM PDT by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: demlosers

Looks like the creature from Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn.


9 posted on 04/22/2005 12:55:37 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: demlosers

If that bug's 8 feet long, the scientist holding him should be an NBA center.


11 posted on 04/22/2005 12:56:18 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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They're perfect for making those 6' long party subs.


13 posted on 04/22/2005 12:56:42 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Holding out for a Slim-centric Universe.)
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15 posted on 04/22/2005 12:58:05 PM PDT by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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To: demlosers

Can I get fries with that?


16 posted on 04/22/2005 12:58:49 PM PDT by MississippyMuddy (No peace, without FREEDOM!!)
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To: demlosers
Ridiculous. Everyone knows the universe is only 6,000 years old.

And how exactly did Noah get that thing on the Ark?

17 posted on 04/22/2005 12:59:04 PM PDT by gdani
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"Breathing, food, locomotion are all problematic for a bug that big," Lucas said. "When the world changed, they just couldn't adapt."

Undoubtedly it was all .... BUSH's FAULT!

:-)

18 posted on 04/22/2005 12:59:40 PM PDT by Condor51 (Leftists are moral and intellectual parasites - Standing Wolf)
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To: demlosers
Here's an artist's rendering of what one might have looked like, ambling through the ferns. Remember...it's at least 6' long"


20 posted on 04/22/2005 1:00:56 PM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: demlosers

Looks like something from a Roger Corman movie.


22 posted on 04/22/2005 1:01:04 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne
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To: demlosers

My BS meter is off the charts.


26 posted on 04/22/2005 1:04:22 PM PDT by 14erClimb
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To: demlosers

As my father used to say, "Don't bug me."


28 posted on 04/22/2005 1:05:19 PM PDT by Cobra64
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To: demlosers

So let’s suppose for a second that ol’ Charlie Darwin was correct in his hypothesis. Does that mean this was the first known democrat?


33 posted on 04/22/2005 1:07:42 PM PDT by schaketo (The revolution will not be televised, it will be web cast!)
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This is definately a two-can of RAID bug.

34 posted on 04/22/2005 1:07:47 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others)
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