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2.5m Water Scorpion Stalks Southern Africa

Posted by Hemos on from the stalking-the-coastline dept.

MeredihtJT writes: "The giant water scorpion well over two metres long made its way slowly over the sea floor, about 100m to 200m below the surface of the water. It would take another 260 million years for South African Palaentologist, geologist and 'pizza-maker' Roger Smith to find it."

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  1. Just when you thought it was safe to go swimming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Duun-uh...
    Duuunn-uh...
    Duuuuuuun-uh...
    Dun Dun Dun Dun Dun Dun Dun!

    It was probably tasty. Scorpions have a zing that you just don't get outside of the pepper genus.

  2. Bwhahaha! by susano_otter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Little does the future Los Angeles know that I have already deployed my own Giant Water Scorpion to attack them in their sleep, millenia hence. Crawl, my pretty! Crawl!

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    1. Re:Bwhahaha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      imagine a beowulf cluster of these

  3. nightmarish by SweetAndSourJesus · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know, I'm really glad the human race took so long to get here. It was a good idea to wait until crazy shit like this died off. I get freaked out by cockroaches, can you imagine 2 1/2 meter scorpions cruising around your kitchen? That's the stuff nightmares are made from.

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  4. Ummmmm by Qwerpafw · · Score: 3, Funny

    Today is apparently the day of the funny postings. Gotta love it.

    2.5m Water Scorpion Stalks Southern Africa
    Tabloid headlines indeed :)

    All I can say is: Where can I get mine?

    1. Re:Ummmmm by TheGreenLantern · · Score: 2, Funny

      Tabloid headlines indeed :)

      Almost as good as that one from this morning about Taco getting married. I mean, who believes this stuff?

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  5. African Swallows by Krusty_Klown · · Score: 1, Funny

    How fast do these scorpions have to beat their wings to cross the ocean. With and without the cocoanut.

  6. Hmm... by Scoria · · Score: 4, Funny

    CmdrTaco is probably locating submitted articles that reference small, low-bandwidth websites and Slashdotting them to impress Kathleen.

    This one is already gone, apparently.

    (Congratulations, Taco. :p)

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    1. Re:Hmm... by Scoria · · Score: 2, Funny

      I do believe that John Ashcroft will now refer to Slashdot as a "terrorist entity" if that's indeed factual.

      CmdrTaco and CmdrTacoette, run while you can!

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  7. Parasite Fossil Trails Found by jamesmartinluther · · Score: 2, Funny

    In an astounding discovery, scientists have found wire trails from parasites sunk into carpeting material in an ancient human inhabitance.

    Humans were tricked into making copies of the box-like plastic and metal parasites and brought the parasites into their dwellings for their usefulness and entertainment. The parasites proliferated, began making copies of themselves, and eventually became the dominant organism on Earth.

  8. Speculation as to the cause of extinction. . . by kfg · · Score: 3, Funny

    seem to center around something known as the dreaded "Slashdot Effect."

    KFG

  9. Eurypterid Park by Skirwan · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can only hope that before they went extinct one of these beasts was trapped in amber, and that somewhere on some privately-owned tropical island a group of scientists funded by a megalomaniacal millionaire are standing on the shoulders of geniuses and thinking more about whether they could than whether they should...

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  10. How many? by Max+the+Merciless · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does this giant scorpian have 5 asses?

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  11. Well... by krmt · · Score: 4, Funny
    I would want to see Samuel L. Jackson saying "hold on to yer butts!" in the movie every time he's about to unleash his genius plan to stop the mutant scorpions, but I doubt he'd do a B flick.

    Well, he did do Episode I...
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  12. pizza maker? by JonWan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmmmm Giant scoripion, and a pizza-maker. Sounds like it might be a hit in Japan.

  13. Re:Metric System by AntiChristX · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, it would have to be 2.5mm to be mm not m.. but that's what I thought too when I first saw it. Then I thought, wouldn't that actually be scarier to have 2.5mm scorpions menacing south africa? Imagine, a hoard of killer scorpions the size of pubic crabs...

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  14. Re:Another page by Rogerborg · · Score: 4, Funny

    I found this interesting artist's impression of how the giant fossil creature may have looked.

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  15. Re:"Millions of years" Myopia by gowen · · Score: 2, Funny
    Perfectly preserved because powerful currents from a giant flood of biblical proportions dumped a pile of sediment on them before they could lose their shape.
    Thats right. The impact of powerful currents caused them not to be disturbed. Thats exactly what powerful currents do, leave everything completely unruffled.
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  16. Is it... by pokeyburro · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it an EEEEEEVIL giant water scorpion??

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