Posted on 11/17/2004 9:28:16 AM PST by cogitator
Linked article is about this. Here's the interesting excerpt:
"Paleontologists are hailing the discovery by a first-year geology student of a new species of amphibian, a salamander-like creature that lived 300 million years ago. -- Adam Striegel picked up a rock the size of a baseball along a road near Pittsburgh International Airport. He decided to show it to one of his lecturers, Charles Jones. Jones spotted some teeth and the outline of a skull. -- "It was immediately clear that this was rare," said Jones."
And one of my favorite mountains (not a volcano: click for full-size version):
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I saw the Eiger up close and personal a few years back. I'd like to point out that I've been as successful at climbing it as has Clint Eastwood.
Nice mountain to visit, and easy to get to -- just take the train to the Jungfraujoch -- I can't wait to go back.
Thanks for the fossil piece - daughter can use it for her weekly science current event.
We did Switzerland a couple of years ago (and Bavaria and Paris) -- saw the Eiger from a distance while on the Pilatus, and the Jungfrau briefly at the Sion train station on the way to Zermatt. Gotta get back there someday.
Glad to be helpful. Can't help you climb the Eiger, though.
I got no closer to climbing it than going to the village of Kleine Scheidegg, which is where the climbing lodge in the Eiger Sanction is located.
I gave up climbing over twenty years ago - back problem, you know. A great big yellow streak running down the middle of it.
LOL @ your back problem.
I did my mountain climbing around there on one of those cog railways. That was WOW enough for me.
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