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Our rabbit voyeurism has reached new heights (or depths, depending how you look at it). This is a webcam trained on someone's bun in Brooklyn. It has become addictive viewing for us:
http://www.bklynbunny.com/
http://www.bklynbunny.com/
Dec. 2nd, 2005
MAN-SIZED CRAB CREATURE ONCE ROAMED THE EARTH
Martin Whyte, a paleontologist at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom has discovered 300 million year old tracks of a large crab-like creature in what was at the time solid land. The discovery is significant because large creatures like this at the time mostly lived in the water.
At the time, living on land was still a relatively recent phenomenon and most land animals were the size of house cats. Hibberopterus, a gigantic member of an extinct species, however, measured 1 meter wide and 1.6 meters long. It had three sets of short legs and probably walked slow.
(Subsequent coverage of this story has indicated that the creature in question was rather more like a giant sea-scorpion that emerged from the water for short periods -- an ancestor of today's much more petite horseshoe crab)
Martin Whyte, a paleontologist at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom has discovered 300 million year old tracks of a large crab-like creature in what was at the time solid land. The discovery is significant because large creatures like this at the time mostly lived in the water.
At the time, living on land was still a relatively recent phenomenon and most land animals were the size of house cats. Hibberopterus, a gigantic member of an extinct species, however, measured 1 meter wide and 1.6 meters long. It had three sets of short legs and probably walked slow.
(Subsequent coverage of this story has indicated that the creature in question was rather more like a giant sea-scorpion that emerged from the water for short periods -- an ancestor of today's much more petite horseshoe crab)
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Dec. 2nd, 2005 06:53 pmThis is an extremely useful site to find out the environmental conditions in the place where you live. Just enter your zipcode in the box:
http://www.scorecard.org/
http://www.scorecard.org/