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Giant Raptor Terrorizes Alaskan Village
An anonymous reader writes "A giant raptor, rumored to have a wingspan of 14 feet, has been spotted by a number of Alaskans in the general vicinity of Manokotak. There is speculation that the beast could be a Steller's sea eagle, but Phil Schempf, of the Fish and Wildlife Service, is dubious: He says that no creature that large has flown in more than 100,000 years. Read about it in this Anchorage Daily News article, which notes that residents have been warned to keep their children indoors."
Man...just the idea of 13 foot wing span makes my lips start to twitch. UMMM....wings....hot sauce...FIRE UP THE GRILL!!!
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Diomedea exulans has the largest wingspan, capable
of spending several months aloft hunting the ocean
and never touching land. They don't weigh as much as the Steller's but they are big. But they are
exclusive to the Southern Hemisphere. Maybe one got very lost. Possibly blown off course by a hurricane. Maybe the russians have been busy with genetic experimentation. Or perhaps it's a Chernobyl migrant.
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i know it means bird of prey, but did anyone else think of this when they read the headline about a giant raptor?
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Visit the Alaska Community Database for more info on Manokotak (including a better location map).
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Southwest Alaskans say bird is the size of a small plane
Seattle Post Intelligencer,WA
A super-sized bird in Alaska-Scripps Howard News Service
Raptor-like bird spotted in Alaska-Ananova
Southwest Alaskans say bird is the size of a small plane-Kenai Peninsula
THERE IS NO DATA. THERE IS O
Um, stop believing what you see in movies.
A dictionary is sometimes useful.
raptor n : any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals [syn: bird of prey, raptorial bird]
but could we have ourselves a Godzilla-movie-like event? Could something have been frozen, or trapped inside a cave or mountain or underground cavern with a liveable ecosystem and now is suddenly exposed to the outside?
No.
Oh come on!
Before anything like that could happen we'd have to be living in a country country where our privacy rights were routinely ignored, where our government would lose total trust in the public and begin trampling their civil rights to proactively stop crime, and where the Armed Forces would begin using their intelligence assets to observe our own public.
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It can rip your head off
It can fly as high as a bird
It can bite your face
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This beast killed as many as 100,000 people
Its wings can flap like a bird
It can break a glass
It can also stab you in the ass
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This beast attacked my brother
It stabbed him in the ass while he was in the cold
His hands were frostbitten
His hands were also numb
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What is it going to take to make you believe!?
maybe we've expanded our GM foods research from just veggies, great, now i have to worry about humongous chickens
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
You only need to see one 300 pound halibut, 2000 pound moose, pumpkin the size of a truck, cabbage that you could roof your house with, ravens 4 feet tall, 30 pound king crab with 6 foot long legs and ouf course foot long buds to belive a story like this. I lived in Alaska 18 years and I do not doubt this one bit.
Everything is bigger there.
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