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Bejesus... BUGS!!!!!

Post by bio » Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:19 pm

Gah... be glad you don't live in the Carboniferous Period of the Paleozoic Erawhen the Arthopleurida was around.

They just found an 8' long fossil in New Mexico, but they've also been found in Scottland and Nova Scotia.

Here's a slightly shorter one:
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Post by gideon » Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:26 pm

Ah. modelled after my abs!
i'll try being nicer if you try being smarter!
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Post by Painted » Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:50 pm

Eeby Jeebies!
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Post by bugfreezer » Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:30 pm

That'd be a hard one to pin in a box....
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Post by baldy » Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:00 am

be hard to try to claim that wasnt a real bug, maybe my mate Bill Gates could get it re classified as a cosmetic anomoly?

:lol:
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Post by Painted » Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:25 pm

Well whatever it is, it is buttclenching gross.
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Post by bugfreezer » Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:15 pm

Painted wrote:Well whatever it is, it is buttclenching gross.
Pssh!

It'd be a fascinating critter to study!
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Post by Painted » Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:00 am

A bug like that reminds me of a blown up louse or tick...and I don't like cockroaches either....so ewe.
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Post by bio » Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:06 am

It's more like a big, flat millipede.

It was the largest land animal in it's day and probobly feared nothing. The tracks it left look a lot like tire tracks.

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