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Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs
Garimelda writes "Scientists have discovered what they believe is an eight-armed creature which colonized a large section of the world's oceans over 300 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged."
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Ladies and gentlemen, the plot to next year's summer movie flop.
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
So I would take it that these creatures would have invented personal deoderant before the wheel?
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
The passing of our 8 legged, sea dwelling, Gondwanalandish ancestral overlords
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
Cthulu--the ancient one!
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
They should call it Octavius Palinus
Trolling is a art,
I'll believe ID when they find a fossilized watch.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
.....someone played Spore a bit too much...
...they describe other early living things that looked like leaves, shells, stars and something almost akin to a peace symbol.
Damn hippie fossils!
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
I'll believe in fossilized watches once somebody proves intelligence...
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I'll believe ID when they find a fossilized watch.
It's even still hard to believe... http://www.fossil.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentView?langId=-1&storeId=12052&catalogId=10052&categoryId=30005&parent_category_rn=30000&N=0&contentPageHtml=watch_non_catalog
I'm amazed you were able to gleam that all from the summary!
cthulhu?
No, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is in outer space. There's a Hubble picture of it at the supplied link.
Free Martian Whores!
what does God need with a starship?
the preceding post was not spell checked... suck it.
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I'm at a loss to think of any two-limbed complex organisms.
Pirates!
These two pirates are talking in a bar, and the tail of the story goes...
"... and that thar seagull splotted in me eye, and I was a-fergettin' that I'd a-just gotten me hook... and that's how I got me eyepatch! Yarrrr!"
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
As a strict Fundamentalist Christian, I applaud how your examples became more fantastical/mythical the farther back in time you go, with the obvious (and proper) implication that caveman and dinosaurs are even sillier works of fiction than King Arthur and Robin Hood. Bravo!
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
I think he'd say something like this:
"Hey everyone, I'm British! Look at me! Look! Look damn you!"
I hate printers.
Who isnt ready to not say that the bible isnt reffering to what is not a man and a woman, but a large bowl of spaghetti?
I for one, have no idea.
NO SIG
So big whoop. They were like 25 cents in gumball machines. You'd throw them at windows and they'd slowly crawl down. Can't wait til someone unearths a gummy bracelet or a Swatch watch...
I thought Spore was a game?
That's a common misconception, it's actually five really crappy games.