Polar creatures squeaked through last ice age ( Invasion of the killer crabs )

Nature ^ | 18 February 2008 | Alexandra Witze

[Sparky7450]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e6nDyeV0i6w

[ccmay]

Counter-current exchange physiology is really something, isn’t it?

[djf]

Retia Mirabilia.

There was a very good SciAm article about it years ago, back when SciAm was worth a damn.

[Army Air Corps]

In that scenario, Teddy, Michael Moore, and Rosie O’Donnell would remian and have to repopulate the planet. That, my FRiend, is nightmare fuel.

[magslinger]

What do you mean unnatural? Ethanol is made by yeast, it's natural.

[steelyourfaith]

Problems with fact, as the example you cite, arise because environmentalists such as Ms. Biologist Wilga, are less beholden to the rigors of the scientific method than they are to the the dogma of their Church of the Warming Globe.

[Tallguy]

I personally wouldn’t want to be dancing with one of those monster crabs in the dive lockout while waiting for the pressure to equalize. Talk about hand-to-hand...