A two-inch-long ant that once roamed Wyoming rivals
today's hummingbirds in size. CREDIT: Bruce Archibald
2 posted on
05/03/2011 9:42:31 PM PDT by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
To: NormsRevenge
3 posted on
05/03/2011 9:46:29 PM PDT by
shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: NormsRevenge
4 posted on
05/03/2011 9:47:16 PM PDT by
stormer
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9 posted on
05/03/2011 9:55:55 PM PDT by
FrogMom
(There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
To: SunkenCiv
11 posted on
05/03/2011 9:56:12 PM PDT by
houeto
(Rev. 13. [7] And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them:)
To: NormsRevenge
I’ve got a monstrously big aunt in Wyoming..they grow em that way down there...
To: NormsRevenge
Whut!!!
It’s wuz warmers sometimes befohs now???
Dem poh Aunts is deyead cuz deh had uh heat stroke!
Poh things!
16 posted on
05/03/2011 10:19:22 PM PDT by
Vendome
("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
To: NormsRevenge
Waitaminit. If that Ant’s related to the German Ants, are they cousins (however many times removed)? And what about the Uncles? How come no one mentions the missing Uncles?
19 posted on
05/03/2011 11:02:26 PM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: NormsRevenge
The Green River Formation has great fossils, esp. of flies and other insects. A really fine limestone matrix which allows for great preservation of details such as wing-lines, legs, fish/scales/eyes, etc.
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21 posted on
05/03/2011 11:07:38 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
To: NormsRevenge
"'Monstrously Big Ant' Fossil Found in Wyoming" Any fossils of Rodents of Unusual Size?
22 posted on
05/03/2011 11:14:10 PM PDT by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: SunkenCiv
I know you’ve been *pinged* twice already, but I just wanted to let you know there’s no real reason to put this one out there-—I’ve already read it. *<];-’)
25 posted on
05/03/2011 11:45:00 PM PDT by
ApplegateRanch
(Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
To: NormsRevenge
Probably why there are no fossil picnic sites found.
29 posted on
05/04/2011 3:46:13 AM PDT by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: NormsRevenge
Maybe it was a prehistoric ant. Maybe something else.
30 posted on
05/04/2011 4:11:21 AM PDT by
tlb
To: NormsRevenge
Ants are probably by far the greatest number of individual animals on Earth. They live everywhere, except the universe likes cruel irony.
No ants in ANTartica!!!
Amongst the plant or plantlike species, the greatest population is prochlorococcus. A marine micro-photosynthetic bacteria. Worldwide, in the oceans, there are probably 1-100 billion billion billion of them. Estimate are that they produce 20% of the oxygen on the planet.
And nobody ever heard or saw or thought of them until about 1978.
I wonder what else is undiscovered.
31 posted on
05/04/2011 4:21:30 AM PDT by
djf
(Dems and liberals: Let's redefine "marriage". We already redefined "natural born citizen".)
To: NormsRevenge
Correction: Almost 50 million 4,500 years ago, just before God flooded the entire world to a depth of 20' over the muntain tops, ants the size of hummingbirds roamed what is now Wyoming, a new fossil discovery reveals.
To: NormsRevenge
Ants? Oh, I really don't like ants!
43 posted on
05/04/2011 8:04:43 AM PDT by
RikaStrom
(Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his place of leadership.")
To: NormsRevenge
Where was Myrmecophagus rex when you really needed him?
85 posted on
05/04/2011 12:03:25 PM PDT by
RichInOC
(Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
To: NormsRevenge
This same Denver museum is heading up this summer’s continued dig of the Aspen mammoth.
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