Scientists Uncover Fossil of Biggest Bug Ever at 8 Feet Long - GoFuckYourself.com

xmas13 · 11-21-2007, 04:18 AM

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312384,00.html

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British scientists have stumbled across a fossilized claw, part of an ancient sea scorpion, that is of such large proportion it would make the entire creature the biggest bug ever.

How big? Bigger than you, and at 8 feet long as big as some Smart cars.

The discovery in 390-million-year-old rocks suggests that spiders, insects, crabs and similar creatures were far larger in the past than previously thought, said Simon Braddy, a University of Bristol paleontologist and one of the study's three authors.

"This is an amazing discovery," he said Tuesday.

hjnet · 11-21-2007, 04:28 AM

You'd need a pretty big fly flap for that one

D · 11-21-2007, 04:34 AM

While the Eurypterid is the largest Arthropod to have ever walked the earth, they have found longer fossils of these "sea scorpions" before... as long as 8.4 feet.

Last time I checked, 8.4 > 8.0

Fox News != reliable source

SexualDragon · 11-21-2007, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by hjnet

You'd need a pretty big fly flap for that one

TG Rebecca · 11-21-2007, 08:12 AM

that picture is freaking me out.

ShellyCrash · 11-21-2007, 08:14 AM

UGH! Nightmares!

Gotta love that it has claws...

tony286 · 11-21-2007, 08:17 AM

thats fucking scary.

TripleXPrint · 11-21-2007, 08:26 AM

Those are still around; we now call them lobsters.

StuartD · 11-21-2007, 08:28 AM

Yes but is it good in warm butter?

Dollarmansteve · 11-21-2007, 08:49 AM

edit.. lobster joke already made :P

JD · 11-21-2007, 08:54 AM

gee that's not terrifying or anything...

u-Bob · 11-21-2007, 08:57 AM

I'd kill it.

RedShoe · 11-21-2007, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by tony404

thats fucking scary.

No. Scary is when you sit on the toilet and realize you're out of toilet paper. Big bugs are cool!

Jim_Gunn · 11-21-2007, 09:13 AM

Sea scorpions are NOT "bugs". What kind of science writer would write this? Insects were indeed bigger in the past as well, since earth had a greater percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere in the distant past and that allows insects with their passive respiration systems to grow larger than they would be able to grow nowadays, but not eight-plus feet long!

who · 11-21-2007, 09:16 AM

Another thing I wondered about ... if they found the claw - couldn't it have just been a little creature with huge claws??

Also, a joke:
Did they find it inside Windows Vista?

*bows*

TripleXPrint · 11-21-2007, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by who

Another thing I wondered about ... if they found the claw - couldn't it have just been a little creature with huge claws??

Also, a joke:
Did they find it inside Windows Vista?

*bows*

Like a fiddler crab?

Oh, and I honestly LOL'ed at the Vista joke.

Basic_man · 11-21-2007, 09:26 AM

That's just plain crazy!!

nosey · 11-21-2007, 10:02 AM

Violetta · 11-21-2007, 10:13 AM

Id die if I ever met something like that... fucking nasty. Reminds me of those creatures from King Kong

Scott McD · 11-21-2007, 10:16 AM

Thank fuck those things aren't around anymore...

miss_jody · 11-21-2007, 10:17 AM

Wow

*shudder*

riddler · 11-21-2007, 10:18 AM

fox news reporting on something that is more than 6000 years old?! WTF!

digifan · 11-21-2007, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by riddler

fox news reporting on something that is more than 6000 years old?! WTF!

Be happy!

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