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Spectacular specimen: This bug's a big one - 8 feet long - and New Mexico scientists nabbed...
Albuquerque Tribune ^ | April 14, 2005 | Sue Vorenberg

Posted on 04/22/2005 12:50:39 PM PDT by demlosers

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To: demlosers
"The museum has not found the bug itself. What it did find in a remote canyon near Española were the fossilized tracks of such a creature"

How do they know it was a bug?

41 posted on 04/22/2005 1:15:36 PM PDT by BROKKANIC
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To: demlosers

The bugs whacked us Johnny...


42 posted on 04/22/2005 1:18:50 PM PDT by Betis70 (It's all fun and games till someone gets impaled with a Javelin)
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To: demlosers
That bug probably resembles Bill and Hellarys first and final attempt at siring an alleged child. They killed it too, of course.
43 posted on 04/22/2005 1:19:30 PM PDT by Pagey (Hillary talking about Religion is as hypocritical as Bill carrying a bible out of church for 8 years)
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To: demlosers

Microsoft programmer displays biggest bug found so far in Internet Explorer.

44 posted on 04/22/2005 1:20:01 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Blackwell for Governor 2006: hated by the 'Rats, feared by the RINOs.)
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To: Red Badger

A LOBSTROCITY! (For you Dark Tower fans)


45 posted on 04/22/2005 1:20:02 PM PDT by Pest (My reality check bounced!)
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To: demlosers; Tijeras_Slim; Constitution Day; xsmommy
This is basically the Tyrannosaurus of the Pennsylvanian period

Proto-Jagoff.

46 posted on 04/22/2005 1:20:10 PM PDT by martin_fierro (Chat is my milieu)
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To: 14erClimb
My BS meter is off the charts.

Why? This thing lived at a time when the world was crittered by dragonflies with 60 cm wingspans and 20 cm-long cockroaches.

47 posted on 04/22/2005 1:20:42 PM PDT by Junior (“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
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To: dead
Too funny !
But the bug in that picture is a model.
The bug that left the tracks in a fossil specimen is estimated to be 8ft long.
48 posted on 04/22/2005 1:21:06 PM PDT by stylin19a (Always remember - don't ever forget - "2 wrongs don't make a right, it's 3 lefts that make a right.")
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To: tet68

Fewer plants. Plants during this period were growing like crazy, pumping huge amounts of oxygen into the atmosphere (hence the really big bugs). At the end of this period, the oxygen levels dropped (maybe from global cooling and drying killing off a lot of the world's vegetation).


49 posted on 04/22/2005 1:22:54 PM PDT by Junior (“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
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To: Tax-chick
Quibbles! It's a hugh, disgusting bug, however you date it!

You have to be really, really lonely to date that.

50 posted on 04/22/2005 1:24:06 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: demlosers

Deep fry in kettle, sprinkle with salt and pepper, serve over rice, LMAO!!!!!


51 posted on 04/22/2005 1:25:16 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (If you're not part of the solution, YOU ARE the problem.)
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To: PatrickHenry
I'd rather take my chances with an 8-foot crocodile. It's only a reptile, after all.
52 posted on 04/22/2005 1:25:19 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro

Someone dated Hillary Rodham ...


53 posted on 04/22/2005 1:25:52 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Pope Benedict XVI: The Rat-Zinger!)
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To: demlosers

Them's good eating!


54 posted on 04/22/2005 1:25:57 PM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: martin_fierro
This is basically the Tyrannosaurus of the Pennsylvanian period.

This is the basic arthropleura of the Massachusetts era.


55 posted on 04/22/2005 1:26:58 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: demlosers
"...but 300 million years ago...New Mexico was near the equator then, and the land was much warmer and wetter...."

My complaining to myself about traffic this a.m. is so insignifiant whenb I read statements like these. I've come to this conclusion though: On the whole as a species, "we deserve to be in traffic".<---LOL on a Pessimistic Friday

56 posted on 04/22/2005 1:30:59 PM PDT by Pagey (Hillary talking about Religion is as hypocritical as Bill carrying a bible out of church for 8 years)
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To: Junior

How do you know? Were you there?


57 posted on 04/22/2005 1:32:32 PM PDT by 14erClimb
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To: shaggy eel; MineralMan

Hey shaggy...they copied your driver's license photo.

Though Muttly ambles through the ferns often,

only your photogenic contributions remind me of how much more cautious i should be.


58 posted on 04/22/2005 1:35:42 PM PDT by PoorMuttly (muttly - verb:"to cudgel or beat with a short heavy stick")
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To: 14erClimb

I've seen the fossils.


59 posted on 04/22/2005 1:39:44 PM PDT by Junior (“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
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To: demlosers

Rodan snacks!


60 posted on 04/22/2005 1:40:15 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is not conservative!)
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