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Arthropod Chain Gangs

Posted by timothy on from the early-gamers dept.

monk writes "Science News references a story in the October 10 Science about Cambrian invertebrates which formed weird permanent chains up to twenty individuals long. 'The discovery of 525-million-year-old fossils belonging to a new species of arthropod shows that these animals formed communal chains never before seen in fossilized invertebrates.' It should be obvious to any Slashdotter of a certain age that this is the true origin of the so called 'centipede' in the eponymous game."

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  1. 525 million years! by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    That's 524,994,000 before Earth was created!

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    1. Re:525 million years! by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's 524,994,000 before Earth was created!

      550496256 in hard disk years

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    2. Re:525 million years! by Jrabbit05 · · Score: 1, Funny

      We found Sarah Palin's Slashdot account too!

  2. Tapeworm? by Misanthrope · · Score: 2, Funny

    Reminds me of the segmented body of a tape worm
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapeworm#Proglottids
    This could've been some sort of mating protocol, used for collective trail or possibly the bunny hop....

  3. The conga line... by Robin47 · · Score: 5, Funny

    is older than we figured...

  4. it's already Saturday by porky_pig_jr · · Score: 2, Funny

    and still no "Imagine Beowulf of those!". What the world is coming to?