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Giant venus flytrap of the seas
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:22 am
by cure
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090118/sc ... 0118041452
We could use use an oversized one for the Sea of Sorrows . . . .
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:40 pm
by Rotipher of the FoS
Sounds like it'd make a better hazard than a monster, IMO.
Titanoboa, the 45 ft, 1 ton, all consuming snake
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:16 pm
by cure
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:02 am
by cure
Sea monster identified as having an unprecedently vicious bite:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090316/sc_ ... seamonster
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:26 am
by Rotipher of the FoS
Wow,
serious jaw-power! Either that thing ate nothing but turtles and ammonites -- shells and all -- or somebody dropped a decimal point when they calculated the bite force.
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:19 am
by cure
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:24 pm
by Griselda
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:33 pm
by Rotipher of the FoS
Griselda wrote:Nightmare fodder
Eh. Creepy, but not that bad. Sounds like the snake had been able to make use of the limb, and had managed to survive in the wild OK.
Now, if it had been a throwback to a somewhat more recent ancestor, it might have sported a
flipper rather than a lizard leg. That would be the closest we'd ever come to getting a look at a living mosasaur...
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:26 pm
by Ail
Back reading through this whole thread made me realize there are lots of people in these forums that have a rather-more-than-average understanding of biology, in some cases professional knowledge, really.
I'd actually be interested in knowing if there's a higher than average population of biologists around. It would be groovy if that turned out to be the case, as I would immediately consider to which point this could be considered some 'Mordenheim effect' or so.
As for me, thought I like many things, Biology has seldom been one of them.
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:02 pm
by cure
Fossilised skull of 'sea monster' pliosaur found on Dorset coast:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/ ... rset-coast
PS I'm not a biologist, although I am fond of the subject.
Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 3:30 pm
by cure
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:22 pm
by cure
Re: Giant real animals from our past (& present)
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:21 pm
by HuManBing