Ice Age Survivors Found In Iceland

Science Daily ^ | 7-20-2007 | University Of Chicago

[Does so]

Can they be breaded and deep fried?

They're probably very small. The northern tier of the US states have a similar critter on their shallow lake bottoms, but only in a grayish-green color. I suspect this white one swims upside-down as well.

[metmom]

Surviving an ice age is nothing. We do it every year here in NY.

[betty boop]

One of these new species falls within a new family of amphipods, which indicates that the species has been a long time in Iceland.

I'm having difficulty scanning the logic of this sentence. Can anyone explain it to me?

Thanks for the ping, editor-surveyor!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

"These finding can only be explained by these animals surviving glaciations in some kind of refugium under the glaciers,"

Tell Al Gore to stick this!

[hosepipe]

The nephew of a friend of mine studies ice-worms..
ICE-WORMS?.. Yep theres ice worms.. They live on the algae that grows on Glaciers.. and maybe each other.. Worms that live in/on ice from birth to death.. Maybe these amphipods live on ice worms.. Amazing that lifeforms can live in and on ICE...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Alamo-Girl]

LOLOL! It doesn’t make sense to me either.

[CottShop]

[[One of these new species falls within a new family of amphipods, which indicates that the species has been a long time in Iceland.
I’m having difficulty scanning the logic of this sentence. Can anyone explain it to me?]]

Why soytenly- lemme just put on me apologetics cap... K ready:

You see, long long ago, when a species didn’t really fit into any category because, well, frankly, there wasn’t anyone around to classify them, they were not technically a species. Then, when modern man leapt from the trees and hit the keyboards, he done thunk “We gotsta classify stuff” and so He did, mistakenly thinking all species had common anscestry. So, now that we’ve uncovered this ‘new species’ which wasn’t classified before, we’ve done classified it, thus giving it a grandfathered status of and distinction of being an actual species way back when when nobody was around to classify species. So, if you think about it, the new species really was around for a long time— it’s just that it’s...errr... new to us now...in a manner of speaking.

[CottShop]

Yuck- I’d rather study ice-crickets

[CottShop]

N.Y? We used to travel south during hte winter to N.Y just to warm up for the winter- N.Y was our winter florida sunshine :)

[SunkenCiv]

thanks blam.

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[SunkenCiv]

whoops.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1869241/posts?page=31#31

[CottShop]

[[These fish, which are popular in aquariums, are deep-bodied and have one nostril, rather than the usual two, on each side of the head.]]

The reason they only have one nostril is because as they evolved from land dwelling critters to fishies, they lost their fingers on one side and couldn’t pick their nose with that side’s fingers anymore, so eventually they lost their nostril too

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Is this where those cavemen from the Geico commercials came from?

[ApplegateRanch]

We are all Ice Age survivors.

I know I am, considering I survived my first wife.

[zeugma]

Amazing that lifeforms can live in and on ICE...

Evidence continues to accumulate that life of some kind can survive almost anywhere. 

When we get out and start exploring the solar system in a really big way in the next few hundred years, I wouldn't be surprised at all if we found life in several places off our planet.  

[Joe Miner]

Is it my computer or is your link “Evolution in Your Face” really meant to take me to Penthouse magazine?

[SunkenCiv]

Uh-oh. Omni was published by Gucchione, but ceased publication some years ago, and some time ago the links stopped working (the archive fell offline). I didn't realize the link redirected anywhere, my apologies.