Ice Age Survivors Found In Iceland

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

[SunkenCiv]

Ah, here’s a working link:

http://www.astralgia.com/webportfolio/omnimoment/archives/antimatter/evolut.html

[Joe Miner]

No problem, thought I might of been infected.

[SunkenCiv]

No one appreciates a visit from the STD florist... ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

Evolution in Your Face
by Patrick Huyghe
Omni

Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, is home to more than 300 species of cichlids. 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. Seismic profiles and cores of the lake taken by a team headed by Thomas C. Johnson of the University of Minnesota, reveal that the lake dried up completely about 12,400 years ago. This means that the rate of speciation of cichlid fishes has been extremely rapid: something on average of one new species every 40 years!

Fossils Show Corals Survived Past Warming
by Larry O'Hanlon
Discovery News
October 23, 2006

A critical reef-building coral that has been thought especially vulnerable to global warming of seas may not be so frail after all... The corals living from 7,300 to 9,500 years ago show geological evidence of enduring severe storms, salinity changes and temperature changes without any noticeable ill effects.

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[Fred Nerks]

Fairy shrimp hatched from eggs collected at the bottom of former water wells in Saudi Arabia.

meanwhile, in the ANTARCTIC:

http://www.meta-religion.com/Zoology/New_species/antarctic_ice.htm

Among the hundreds of specimens collected, the scientists identified 15 possible new species of shrimp-like amphipods, and four possible new species of cnidarians, organisms related to coral, jellyfish and sea anemones, the scientists said in a statement.

These specimens will be analyzed to determine whether they in fact are newly discovered species.

[hosepipe]

[.. 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. ..]

Life had to first somewhere, why not here?.. -Carl Sagan..

Enough monkeys with typewriters might eventually produce a RAP Song.. but monkeys seem to be smarter than that..

[SunkenCiv]

Fairy shrimp? They couldn’t even find some hetero shrimp? Commies.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

How old are you?

[Graymatter]

There’s also some real hot water in Iceland, which is parked over a heating grate.

[Larry Lucido]

“If an ice age crashes in iceland, where do they bury the survivors?”

[Elsie]

Ice Age Survivors Found In Iceland only to be cooked by Global Warming®!

[MaxMax]

Ice Age Survivors Found In Iceland

Sure, But will they survive the Fire age? /s

[Caramelgal]

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?

Or put another way, a friend called me all excited because she bought a new car and was coming over to show me. When I saw the car, I said, “That’s not a new car, that’s a 10-year old used car”. She said, "Yes but its new to me!

[RightWhale]

That’s an interesting question. The answer could be, or not.

[betty boop]

. 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.

LOL!!! Thanks for clearing that up, CottShop! Classification seems a tad arbitrary at times....

[wildbill]

Not one in a hundred people will catch the reference to Encino Man.

[wildbill]

I’m pretty sure I’ve survived an Ice Age.”

Me too! I’m still alive and kicking after my divorce in 1979.

[bannie]

It probably doesn't speak English...yet.

[dc27]

I thought about that after I posted. I guess you are the 1 in 100. Not too many Pauly Shore fans on FR.