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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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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?

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

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

    KFG

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

    Does this giant scorpian have 5 asses?

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  8. 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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  9. pizza maker? by JonWan · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  10. 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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