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Ancient find evokes the image of a terrifying super-scorpion
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1898281,00.html ^
| December 01, 2005
Posted on 11/30/2005 10:45:57 PM PST by mastercylinder
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To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/30/2005 10:47:51 PM PST
by
mastercylinder
(Evolution: Taking care of those too stupid to take care of themselves.)
To: mastercylinder
To: j. earl carter
Like lobster. Sadly drawn butter was 329,997,000 years in the future...
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posted on
11/30/2005 10:51:08 PM PST
by
null and void
(Peace on Earth. Death to the Terrorists...)
To: mastercylinder
An ancestor of Helen Thomas?
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posted on
11/30/2005 10:51:41 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
To: OldFriend
No....this was Helen's younger sister. May she rest in peace.
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posted on
11/30/2005 10:57:03 PM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
To: null and void
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11/30/2005 10:57:34 PM PST
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The Spirit Of Allegiance
(SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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posted on
11/30/2005 11:14:54 PM PST
by
AmericanArchConservative
(Armour on, Lances high, Swords out, Bows drawn, Shields front ... Eagles UP!)
To: mastercylinder
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11/30/2005 11:34:45 PM PST
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Dallas59
(“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party)
To: mastercylinder
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posted on
11/30/2005 11:38:44 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Yeah, but could it rock you like a realy old hurricane ?
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posted on
12/01/2005 12:18:05 AM PST
by
daku
(Islam , a religion of peace ... Liar liar, France on fire)
To: daku
Some of the ones from the Burgess Shale were on the order of eight feet long. More water bug than I'd want to mess with...
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posted on
12/01/2005 12:23:58 AM PST
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: All
Pretty cool.
To: Smokin' Joe
The linked site states "last ones went extinct in the Permian."
That seems to directly contradict their linked posting about Carboniferous scorpions:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/arachnida/scorpiones.html
The one in the article is from mid-Carboniferous, almost on the Pennsylvanian/Missisippisan boundary, 40M years before the Permian.
"The Silurian scorpions appear to have lived in the water, since their fossils have gills, but by the Carboniferous scorpions with such features are no longer found -- fossils from the Pennsylvanian age Mazon Creek beds have book lungs covered by protective plates, and so were probably land-dwellers."
I am confuzzled.
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posted on
12/01/2005 12:36:56 AM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: ApplegateRanch
Not really:
Youngest to oldest periods in the Paleozoic Era:
Permian
Pennsylvanian
Mississippian (unless you are not American, then the Pennsylvanian and Mississippian are combined to make the "Carboniferous")
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian
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posted on
12/01/2005 12:48:34 AM PST
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Dang Joe, you sound just like Ross in the TV show Friends!
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posted on
12/01/2005 2:22:19 AM PST
by
MrPiper
To: mastercylinder
You have to eat a lot of water fleas to grow to that size (Unless, of ocurse, the fleas were the size of a softball).
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posted on
12/01/2005 3:43:47 AM PST
by
rod1
To: mastercylinder
Bugs!
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posted on
12/01/2005 3:52:09 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: mastercylinder
The small modern cousins are terrifying enough.
To: mastercylinder
I would have screamed like a little mid-Carboniferous b*tch.
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posted on
12/01/2005 4:21:42 AM PST
by
Jhensy
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