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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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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Apologies to Douglas Adams by UnknowingFool · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I would take it that these creatures would have invented personal deoderant before the wheel?

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  3. I for one lament by OzPeter · · Score: 4, Funny

    The passing of our 8 legged, sea dwelling, Gondwanalandish ancestral overlords

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  4. could it be... by catdevnull · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cthulu--the ancient one!

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  5. Re:FSM by Andr+T. · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll believe ID when they find a fossilized watch.

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  6. Re:Octospiders by butterflysrage · · Score: 5, Funny

    what does God need with a starship?

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  7. Re:four accidental or metabolically efficient? by Paaskonijn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm at a loss to think of any two-limbed complex organisms.

    Pirates!

  8. Re:The summary is... by TeknoHog · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've had it with these mother fucking eels on this mother fucking hovercraft!

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