[Non-Ceph] Bits 'n Pieces

[um...]

sorry to go of piste but Um... you're sure looking purty !
busy tonight ?

Busy running away screaming...

 

[Phil]

600 million year old eggs from China containing embryos. But what sort of animal would they have hatched into?

Cambrian embryos

 

[Phil]

Looks like the world's largest spider has been downsized somewhat. The 300 million year old metre long Megarachne has just been reappraised. It is now a sea scorpion! Pity really.

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Manchester | Scariest spider 'really a crab'

 

[erich orser]

Depressed as well as disappointed. I really like the idea of meter-span spiders.

 

[chrono_war01]

Depressed as well as disappointed. I really like the idea of meter-span spiders.

I better stock up on 2 meters wide books to squish'em up in case of them coming for a visit!

 

[spartacus]

I better stock up on 2 meters wide books to squish'em up in case of them coming for a visit!

hey, stop right there young fella ! oi loik spiders ! just catch it a dustbin & put him outside !

keef

 

[erich orser]

Me too, unless they're good ol' Arkansas Fiddlebacks. Then, well, I respect the spider, but...

That would be the notorious Brown Recluse spider, of course. Nasty creatures. Nowhere near as bad as a funnel-web spider, but amputations are not something I want as an artist.

 

[spartacus]

aye lad, I've seen them pesky varmints on't telly & ye'll nay want one o' them in ya jarmies - ouch !
now't like that 'bout these parts.

Keef

 

[Phil]

Very interesting BBC Radio programme on the Cambrian explosion and the Burgess Shale available to listen to here:

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time

It was first broadcast last Thursday.

 

[dave]

Moon Child. How's the eagle ?

 

[Phil]

Shonisaurus sikanniensis, the worlds largest ichthyosaur, has just been put on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Canada.


http://www.fftimes.com/index.php/3/2005-03-08/20416

 

[Squidman]

that's one big icthyosaur. I forgot how huge they could get.

 

[Phil]

Oh no! Unique trilobite fossil stolen!!!

http://www.expressandstar.com/articles/news/es/article_72292.php

 

[Squidman]

OH MANN! What idiot would steal a fossil? It's a rock!

 

[neuropteris]

Wasn't that big Ichthy excavation featured in a National Geographic or Discovery Channel documentary a year or two back entitled "Triassic Sea Monster" or something similar? Also when will the press learn that Ichthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs, Pliosaurs and Mosasaurs (and Pterosaurs for that matter) WERE NOT DINOSAURS!!! (sigh)

The missing trilobites have now been recovered and two local youths are helping police with their enquiries apparently

All the best

Andy