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Scorpion Survives Inside Fossil Sample
breitbart ^ | 01/26/06 | AP

Posted on 01/27/2006 7:56:52 AM PST by theFIRMbss

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1 posted on 01/27/2006 7:56:53 AM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: theFIRMbss

I bet he was hungry.


2 posted on 01/27/2006 8:00:12 AM PST by devane617 (An Alley-Cat mind is a terrible thing to waste)
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To: theFIRMbss

15 months? Bah. I still would've stepped on it . . . .


3 posted on 01/27/2006 8:01:37 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: theFIRMbss

Hope the little critter wasn't claustrophobic.


4 posted on 01/27/2006 8:02:26 AM PST by manwiththehands (Good news for America = bad news for democRats.)
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To: theFIRMbss

How is this possible?


5 posted on 01/27/2006 8:05:11 AM PST by mysterio
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To: theFIRMbss; Utah Binger

That is just one more creepy, crawling thing with claws and a stinger set free in Utah. I hope they all crawl back under their rock.


6 posted on 01/27/2006 8:05:59 AM PST by colorcountry (Currently not in the process of becoming a God!)
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To: theFIRMbss

As he exited the fossil, the Scorpion was heard to say: "Here I am, rock me like a hurricane."


7 posted on 01/27/2006 8:06:12 AM PST by dinoparty
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To: theFIRMbss

I think he should have fed him and then set him free!


8 posted on 01/27/2006 8:06:56 AM PST by lawgirl (She's more fun than Colorado and more far out than Maine.....)
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To: theFIRMbss

Alligators sometimes go a year without eating.


9 posted on 01/27/2006 8:07:42 AM PST by blam
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To: mysterio

Scorpions can live a long time without food or water. They're pretty sturdy critters. 15 months is quite a while, but I'm not at all surprised.

Finding a scorpion in a sandstone rock containing a fossil -- pretty cool.

Findind a scorpion in a shoe with your foot --- priceless.


10 posted on 01/27/2006 8:07:50 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: blam; SunkenCiv
FYI.

Pretty amazing!

11 posted on 01/27/2006 8:13:36 AM PST by GreenFreeper (Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
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To: theFIRMbss

When we were renting a house one time, we found a dead scorpion in a lightbulb in a closet.

Still haven't figured that one out.

I would've smooshed it though.


12 posted on 01/27/2006 8:16:41 AM PST by eyespysomething (For you to insult me, I must first value your opinion.)
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To: mysterio
How is this possible?

Extremely primitive biologal system; went into extended hybernative state.

13 posted on 01/27/2006 8:19:25 AM PST by ExpatCanuck
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14 posted on 01/27/2006 8:20:39 AM PST by fishtank
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Lord I hate those things. Spent 2 years getting rid of them.

They can live anywhere for any amount of time. Completely unpredictable. I dropped one in a jar of rubbing alcohol and it swam around in there for quite a while until I finally poured it out and smooshed it.


15 posted on 01/27/2006 8:36:46 AM PST by squarebarb
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To: mysterio
How is this possible?

Maybe originally there were two scorpions trapped in the there... ;-)

16 posted on 01/27/2006 8:41:24 AM PST by Antonello (Oh my God, don't shoot the banana!)
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To: ExpatCanuck

What do hibernating scorpions dream of?


17 posted on 01/27/2006 8:44:52 AM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty.)
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18 posted on 01/27/2006 8:48:09 AM PST by firewalk
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To: ExpatCanuck
Extremely primitive biologal system; went into extended hybernative state.

You heard the Professor say that on Gilligan's Island, didn't you? ;-)

19 posted on 01/27/2006 8:49:55 AM PST by lowbridge (All that is needed for evil to triumph is for "RINOS" to do something)
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To: TASMANIANRED

Probably their 3 wives and 9 children. (in Utah)


20 posted on 01/27/2006 9:03:24 AM PST by fish hawk (creatio ex nihilo)
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