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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. Hey! I've got one of these at my school! by Qwerpafw · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The article says :
    Cape Town-based British palaeontologist John Almond glanced up at a crumbling cliff near Laingsburg in the Karoo and noticed a double set of strange blob-like markings in the rock, starkly outlined in the cross-light of the late afternoon sun.
    At our school, there are similiar strange, blob-like markings on the inside of the bathroom stalls!!

    THERE ARE GIANT WATER SCORPIONS IN OUR TOILETS!

    What are we going to do?!
  2. i know what its doing by negativethirsty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That 2.5m scorpion is under there harvesting cod sperm for beauty products.
    No really, it is!

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  3. Another Slashdot sellout? by fireboy1919 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is this a corporate payoff advertisement for the upcoming Scorpion King movie? What's next? A giant quidditch ball fossil off the coast of Asia?

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  4. Re:not a predator by PyroMosh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I drink to prepare for a fight; tonight I'm very prepared. -Soda Popinksi

    Your sig (and all of the other quotes from that particular Punchout! character) are a lot funnier when you use the character's origional name from the arcade version - Vodka Drunkinski

    Now someone mod me down accordingly, please. ( :

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  5. I have a 3.5 inch scorpion on my arm by CrazyJim0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My friend has to fill it in, basically it has cool skulls for claws, head and stinger, then its gonna be mechanized.

    On my back, I'm getting a full work:fallen angel with his eyes covered by his hand, fresh with wings cut by a female a angel, and below him a demon reflection of his in a pool.

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  6. Re:Article Text by Thorin_ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They really need to implement a moderation option called copyrighted. I would like to mod this post down but I want the poster to know why it was modded down.