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xmas13

11-21-2007 04:18 AM

Scientists Uncover Fossil of Biggest Bug Ever at 8 Feet Long

:Oh crap:Oh crap

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

Quote:

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.

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/5...8cff7d5jb8.jpg

hjnet

11-21-2007 04:28 AM

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

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by hjnet (Post 13400965)

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

:Oh crap

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. :thumbsup

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by tony404 (Post 13401408)

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by who (Post 13401616)

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. :1orglaugh

Basic_man

11-21-2007 09:26 AM

That's just plain crazy!!

nosey

11-21-2007 10:02 AM

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...ipTroopers.jpg

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... :helpme

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by riddler (Post 13401860)

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

Be happy! :winkwink:

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