Posted on 01/27/2006 7:56:52 AM PST by theFIRMbss
SALT LAKE CITY -- A scorpion lived for 15 months without food or water inside the plaster mold of a dinosaur fossil, breaking free only when a scientist broke open the mold.
Don DeBlieux, a paleontologist for the Utah Geological Survey, said he was sawing open the plaster mold when the scorpion wriggled from a crack in a sandstone block.
...The scorpion "must have been hanging out in a crack the day we plastered him," DeBlieux said Thursday.
He discovered the two-inch critter on Jan. 5 after spending two months carefully removing the plaster mold. DeBlieux said he'll spend more than 500 hours cutting the fossilized skull out of sandstone using tiny pneumatic jackhammers. ... Under other circumstances, the scorpion might have met an untimely end, but DeBlieux said he wanted respected the creature's will to survive. He set the scorpion free in a field on the west side of Salt Lake City.
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I used to do my annual treatment around the entire foundation of the house - cut the concentrate only 1-to-1 and douche the entire outline...got a little pricey, but it cut down on my finding them in the shower.
Try Yellow 77 spray glue. They ain't movin' after they're covered with it. If you've got one in a corner or in a kitchen cabinet, or some other place that isn't safely accessible to your "smoosher" tool, then spray that gunk on it.
(OK, the downside is the yellow stain on the wall, but at least you won't get stung by that scorpion. For those who've never been stung by a tiny little Bark Scorpion, you just don't the agony it can cause.)
Well I can't say that I blame him for not wanting to stomp on the critter,
but if there was a baseball bat handy, he should've smashed it into nanoparticles.
Your safest best is
to just call this guy. He will
eat the little things . . .
Yow!
I wonder if it was a "bark scorpion", I hear they are quite tasty.
Yeah, I'm a Survivorman fan.....
At least he had something to wipe his a$$ with.
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"No food, no shelter, no fresh water, no tools... no camera crew. One man - alone in the wild for seven days with only his wits and stamina to sustain him. "Airing on “The Science Channel” in the U.S., and “The Outdoor Life Network” in Canada, each episode finds “Survivorman” Les Stroud abandoned in a remote location. He carries little more than the clothes on his back – and his cameras. Les not only needs to survive for a week without supplies, but he has to film everything himself, lugging over fifty pounds of camera gear the entire time. The Costa Rican rainforest, Arctic ice-flows, Georgian swamp and the high Sonora desert include a few locales where Les has overcome seemingly impossible obstacles." |
LOL, The Black Scorpion is the first thing I thought of too! There's actually a scene in the movie where they revive a (normal-sized) scorpion that was preserved in a rock.
It was the Sonoran desert episode where he ate the live scorpion and roasted the grasshoppers.
Gad! And I cannot go 30 minutes without another Dr Pepper!
I told you to switch to beer.
I did. I drink those between the Dr Peppers...
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Well, I"ve been called worse...
Yeah, by about every female you've dated!
That's right at the end of the scorpion! Are you sure there's not another name for it?! ;o
Animals can endure many profound forces.
Reminds me of the elderly woman on the Gulf coast who had weathered multiple hurricanes, only to have lost everything she owned, including her home.
The one thing she truly missed was a pet parakeet. She found the cage, but no bird.
A couple of days later a neighbor, knowing of her concern, happened upon the bird, alive, several houses(ruined) down from hers.
Upon retunring the bird, they were all happily amazed by God's providence, then while they were talking, the neighbor's cat ate the bird.
Providence. Not always the way we might anticipate.
So is there a punchline or what? ;)
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