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Keuppia levante is one of three newly-discovered species of 95 million-year-old octopuses. Octopus fossils are among the rarest and unlikeliest of fossils.

1 posted on 03/22/2009 9:35:19 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

Cool!


2 posted on 03/22/2009 9:37:25 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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That could be a modern painting hanging in a gallery somewhere. ... way cool


3 posted on 03/22/2009 9:38:07 AM PDT by Republican Party Reptile
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To: JoeProBono

They could be mistaken.

That might just be Casper the Fossilized Ghost.


4 posted on 03/22/2009 9:38:30 AM PDT by George Smiley (They're not drinking the Kool-Aid any more. They're eating it straight out of the packet.)
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To: JoeProBono

Don’t eat the old Sushi.


5 posted on 03/22/2009 9:40:45 AM PDT by bmwcyle (American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
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oh man, now they’ve pissed off the Intergalactic Federation of Octopuses for violation of a sacred king, Octopus Maximus. man.. we gonna be doused in ink.


7 posted on 03/22/2009 9:45:07 AM PDT by Ancient Drive (will)
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To: JoeProBono

That is absolutely incredible.


10 posted on 03/22/2009 9:52:14 AM PDT by mysterio
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can they proove its ONLY 95,000,000,000,000,000,000 etc years old..? I found a worm in a can that was 8 days old...and I can proove it.... I put it there.
great fossil find indeed, but I doubt the numbers..


13 posted on 03/22/2009 10:09:51 AM PDT by rusureitflies? (OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
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I hate octopuses...especially 95 million-year-old octopuses.

FMCDH(BITS)

14 posted on 03/22/2009 10:15:19 AM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: JoeProBono
95 million years from now they are going to find this.


17 posted on 03/22/2009 10:25:53 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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That is not dead which can eternal lie. And these fools dug it up....


21 posted on 03/22/2009 10:57:54 AM PDT by Caesar Soze
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>> ‘”These things are 95 million years old, yet one of the fossils is almost indistinguishable from living species,” Fuchs said.’

Think of it as “evolution inaction.”


22 posted on 03/22/2009 12:50:51 PM PDT by DoorGunner ( "...and so, all Israel will be saved.")
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25 posted on 03/22/2009 4:31:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Ooooo, LOOK! It’s a baby C’thulu!


28 posted on 03/22/2009 5:51:30 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The mob got President Barabbas; America got shafted)
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