Freaky-ass aquatic creature: [link]
This giant deep-sea isopod is an example of an animal that has evolved to a much larger size in deeper water. These isopods are distant relatives of the tiny "pill bugs" found in many gardens. They are also related to small shallow-water isopods that live in tide pools.
Some creationist dude is claiming that this is a trilobite, which somehow proves the earth is only 6000 years old.
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Wow. That put a pause in my brekkie.
I'd assumed it really had to be a quart-sized bag, I guess because that's not the sort of thing you specify if you just mean "bag," y'know?
That TSA story reminded me of this stuff.
Is it bad that I looked at the critter and thought, "wonder how they taste?"?
These isopods are distant relatives of the tiny "pill bugs" found in many gardens
So very much NOT clicking through to the picture.
So very much NOT clicking through to the picture.
They're like a cross between a waterlouse (is that what they call them here?) and a crab. But big.
Multiple people have been shot at an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a state police spokesman says.
WTF?!
There's a story on the website that two Vegas schools are locked down, too, because a student was spotted with a gun. He fled from police, and they found a handgun nearby.
::considers life as an ostrich::