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Scientists discover 120 million year-old ant
Reuters ^ | Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:48am EDT | Reporting by Josie Cox, Editing by Mark Trevelyan

Posted on 09/16/2008 10:05:02 AM PDT by null and void

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To: mikrofon

I’d guess: “I have found it!”


21 posted on 09/16/2008 10:46:34 AM PDT by null and void (When you bang your forehead on the ground five times a day, you get brain damage.)
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To: null and void; martin_fierro; Charles Henrickson
Previously-known form vs. the species on its home planet after 120 million years of evolution:


22 posted on 09/16/2008 10:50:44 AM PDT by mikrofon (Martialis, Heureka!)
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To: null and void

The ants grew eyes and then became “a-i-n’ts” and now there ain’t no ants like that.


23 posted on 09/16/2008 11:06:57 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: null and void
The ant looked at the bugologist through the microscope and said, "Am I too late to catch Sarah Palin in New Mexico?"

The bugologist being a liberal flicked the ant from the rock it was found crawling across as the ant yelled, "drill baby drill!"

They are coming out of the earth for McCain/Palin :-D.

24 posted on 09/16/2008 11:08:34 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: null and void

actually they are german. so he would have said, “ich hab es gefunden.”


25 posted on 09/16/2008 11:14:07 AM PDT by thefactor (contributing nothing of value to threads since 2001...)
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To: SunkenCiv

Subterranean predatory ant ping. Fortunately they are tiny.


26 posted on 09/16/2008 11:14:51 AM PDT by BBell
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To: thefactor; mikrofon

*shrug* It’s all Greek to me...


27 posted on 09/16/2008 11:18:07 AM PDT by null and void (When you bang your forehead on the ground five times a day, you get brain damage.)
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To: Petronski

lol! I immediately thought of the same person after reading the headline. Thank God I’m not the only one that thinks this way :)


28 posted on 09/16/2008 11:21:19 AM PDT by catbertz
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To: null and void

That’s not a very nice thing to say.

To explain my post.... those are a couple lines of a kids’ song. It goes on to explain how a perseverant little ol’ ant can move a rubber tree plant. The fact that an ant has been around 120 million years reminded me of it.

I guess you don’t have any kids or I’m missing your joke.


29 posted on 09/16/2008 2:33:41 PM PDT by freeagle
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To: null and void

You’ve never heard that song? It was very, very popular about 120 million years ago.


30 posted on 09/16/2008 2:41:03 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: freeagle; durasell

The movie that song was featured in was “Hole in the Head”...


31 posted on 09/16/2008 2:54:55 PM PDT by null and void (When you bang your forehead on the ground five times a day, you get brain damage.)
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To: null and void

Really?

I have a vague memory of it, now that you mention it.


32 posted on 09/16/2008 2:58:49 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: durasell

Really.

Why I would have that as a piece of trivia that pops instantly to mind? That, I don’t know.

You’d think that I’d save the quick crucial data space for something more significant...


33 posted on 09/16/2008 3:06:30 PM PDT by null and void (When you bang your forehead on the ground five times a day, you get brain damage.)
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To: null and void

Very sorry. My error and you are far wittier and faster than I am!

I’ll have to look up that movie!

Thank you for your grace in explaining.


34 posted on 09/16/2008 9:08:33 PM PDT by freeagle
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To: freeagle

No problem. I should have capitalized it or at least put it in quotes.

I saw it when it was still in theaters..


35 posted on 09/16/2008 9:45:47 PM PDT by null and void (0bama: one year's experience. Biden: one year's experience, thirty times...)
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Strange ‘Ant From Mars’ Discovered in Amazon Rainforest
foxnews | September 16, 2008
Posted on 09/16/2008 9:12:42 PM PDT by Justice Department
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36 posted on 09/16/2008 11:21:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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37 posted on 09/16/2008 11:22:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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