Scientist finds 100 million-year-old bee

Associated Press ^ | 10/30/06

[Irish_Thatcherite]

The URL is not working!

[presidio9]

Belushi in Killer Bee outfit.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Oh......

;)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Ah... it's working now!

[presidio9]

[Irish_Thatcherite]

That one also works! :-P

[presidio9]

I'm not sure just how much American telly you get over there. Do you get the referrence?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

What show is it? Something rings a bell....

[presidio9]

That's Andy Griffith with Aunt Bea. You may remember his show for starring child actor Ron Howard, and having the catchiest theme-song in the history of television (the whole thing was whistled).

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Ah, I heard of it, but I don't think it has been shown over here... not in recent times, atleast.

[MoochPooch]

An inspiration to beedogs everywhere:



http://www.beedogs.com/

[martin_fierro]

Bee all that you can bee.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

According to some, early bees were carnivorous. (Though they didn't live a million years ago, much less over a hundred million years ago).

[SunkenCiv]

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[Cementjungle]

A scientist has found a 100 million-year-old bee

Wow... and I thought turtles lived a long time.

[SunkenCiv]

I thought Natalie Schafer had been dead for years.

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[Hegemony Cricket]

"Note: this topic is from 10/30/2006. "

So, the bee is now 100,000,005 years and two days old?

[tgusa]

I had a friend who taught his cockatiel to whistle that theme song. Very, very cool.

[aruanan]

Also embedded in the amber are four kinds of flowers. "So we can imagine this little bee flitting around these tiny flowers millions of years ago," Poinar said.

Somewhere I have a beautiful little leaf I found in amber I got in the Dominican Republic. It's sort of heart-shaped, about 3/16" long with serrated edges. I have (or had unless someone swiped them) other pieces from there with ants and termite wings.