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Giant Penguins Once Roamed Peru
Douglas Roberts points out as "obvious Linux fodder" the coverage of a study just published in PNAS claiming that, on fossil evidence, giant penguins once stalked the plains of Peru. One species goes back over 40 million years and its members were as large as modern king penguins. They were warm adapted. Members of another species, 30 million years ago, stood 5 feet high and made their living spearfishing with their 1-foot beaks. Here's an artist's impression.
Canadian wrestler, wife, son found slain
... one of the best in our business," WWE Canada president Carl DeMarco said in a statement.
Atlanta police probe death of Chris Benoit as murder-suicide
Jun 26, 2007 04:30 AM
DANIEL DALE
STAFF REPORTER
Professional wrestler Chris Benoit, known to fans as the "Canadian Crippler," was found dead yesterday in his suburban Atlanta home with his wife, Nancy, and 7-year-old son, Daniel.
Detective Bo Turner told Atlanta television station WAGA the case was being treated as a murder-suicide. The station said police believe the 40-year-old Benoit killed his wife, Nancy, and seven-year-old son, Daniel, over the weekend, then himself on Monday. A neighbour called police, and the bodies were found in three rooms of the house yesterday afternoon.
Autopsy results are expected today.
Benoit had wrestled since 2000 for World Wrestling Entertainment. He had at least two other children: David and Megan.
"Chris was always first-class - warm, friendly, caring and professional
Dennis Turner, who wrestled in the 1980s as Dirty Dan Denton, said Benoit was widely respected for his technical skills, and was regarded as a level-headed person "in the middle of the craziness" that is the world of pro wrestling.
"I'm a very laid back, quiet person. I'm not a big talker," Benoit, a chiselled 5-foot-11 and 220 pounds, told the Canadian Press in 2004.
Born in Montreal, Benoit moved at age 12 to the Edmonton area. At 17, he enrolled in "the dungeon," a legendary wrestling training facility run by Calgary's Stu Hart.
"Every time I come out and hear my name announced and they're saying from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, I'm very proud of that," he told the Edmonton Sun in 2000.
He wrestled for Hart's Stampede Wrestling circuit in the mid-1980s before competing in Japan and Mexico. He moved to the U.S. World Championship Wrestling in 1992, then to the WWE in 2000.
Three months ago, he wondered to the United Kingdom's Express newspaper why so many wrestling stars have died so young. "You read about the lifestyles of rock bands and movie stars and they don't have anything near the mortality rate that we do in wrestling. It's very strange."
Despite his age and injuries that came with his job he said this year he had no plans to quit.
This didn't go through the Firehose, so we didn't even get a chance to vote it down & out. Although I have to admit it's nice to have something posted that isn't "YRO", for a damn change.
Relative? yes and got me laughing.
Funny come-back