Posted on 08/20/2014 9:14:51 PM PDT by null and void
Can I keep him? He’s so soft and cuddly and I’ll feed him and walk him and clean him oh please oh please oh please....
It only as 7 segments.
Caterpillars have 13
Not necessarily. Bees likely evolved from carrion eating insects that were attracted to the smell of putrefying flesh. When plants evolved simple flowers some of them produced a foul smell that attracted the insects. Some of these carrion eaters, while looking for the dead thing that they were sure they could smell, found that they could eat the plant's nectar (probably as an occasional food source at first). The plants found that they were aided in their survival as well and specialized more towards attracting the insects. The flowering plants and bees have evolved side by side since.
I learn something on FR every day.
It’s a baby Graboid!
Phrases like, “an exiting outcome” and “a long and heated debate” only show the irrelevance to today’s world of such a myopic vision of a very narrow segment of the scientific community.
I once met a farmer who had a rick full of corncobs. I asked him why he had so many and he said he was collecting them. I then asked why he was collecting corncobs and he said, “because aint’ no one else doing it.”
Perhaps these guys are gently pulling our collective legs.
Like Balrogs and the Ungoliant?
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