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"Fossils of ..." in case you were as scared as me
by jjgreen 3y ago
"Fossils of ..." in case you were as scared as me
- ReptileMan 3y agoI was just looking at the headline and "That is a good beginning of a horror movie"
- raverbashing 3y agoOr a techno-distopian space sci-fi movie ;)
- gilleain 3y agoSo Tremors, then?
- happosai 3y agoThis is the episode "ice" from x-files.
- NikkiA 3y agoSlow worms are bigger than this, also carnivorous (eat slugs and other common garden pests), but are completely harmless to humans, endangered and protected by law, and live human comparable lifespans. Basically, the headline makes something sound scary when it shouldn't really be.
- d1sxeyes 3y agoAlso relatively giant: > growing to more than 30cm in length
- nathancahill 3y agoThis centipede is a predator.
- mccrory 3y agoCentipede https://g.co/kgs/zUznwnH https://g.co/kgs/zUznwnH
- BoiledCabbage 3y agoSo the common earthworm, while usually much smaller, can grow to be 35cm. And from a quick search, the giant Oregon earthworm can grow to be 1.5 meters. So between the disappointment in the size of 'giant' and the age vs fossil age, this is a pretty big let down of a title. Now maybe I'm a bit of an idiot for even a second believing any creature could be hundreds of millions of years old - but in the flip side once you take away both of those qualifiers (giant and old) there isn't much story here to be much interest. Or at least not to me.
- gilleain 3y agoBigger : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchaetus_rappi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchaetus_rappi can grow to 6.7m !
- jjgreen 3y agoHoly crap: https://featuredcreature.com/hide-yo-kids-hide-yo-wife-theres-giant-earthworms-out-there/ https://featuredcreature.com/hide-yo-kids-hide-yo-wife-there...
- aftoprokrustes 3y agoLet's be fair to the title: 'giant' is in inverted commas, and the article is pretty straight to the point and does not try to drag on the expectation that the worm was 100s of meters long (or alive, but I was expecting a fossil). It does say, however, that it is the biggest knRecopiez le code 53587468 pour accéder à vos comptes Caisse d'Epargne. Si vous n'etes pas à l'origine de cette demande, contactez votre agence.own sea creature at the time: in my book, this is an acceptable definition of a giant. I was a bit disappointed by the size at first, but I actually found the article very interesting in a lot of aspects: how 30cm was giant at the time, how worms were the dominating family, and yet how similar they were to modern day worms are quite fascinating to me.
- eino 3y agoI take your (or the worm's) bank account access was not meant to be in this comment?
- vinu76jsr 3y agoI was, thanks for clarifying.
- gumballindie 3y agoAnd not gigantic. These headlines are becoming tiresome.
- rsynnott 3y agoIt's gigantic relative what you'd expect for predators at the time, is the point.
- gumballindie 3y agoYes, but casual readers such as myself expected a worm the size of a bus. The title was made to mislead people like into clicking. Why it’s called clickbait.
- rsynnott 3y agoClearly you have been watching too much Dune.
- RuggedPineapple 3y agoThat's... huge? I don't really see the problem with that. This is from the veryearly Cambrian. The first thing we tentatively assign as an 'animal' (Caveasphaera) came less then 100 million years before it. It comes from the same million year period that featured the first known arthropod (Kylinxia) and absolutely dwarfed that creature. It's 6 times longer. The size difference between this and what else was around seems pretty close to the difference between you and an elephant.
- rvbissell 3y agoRight? I was expecting something akin to an ALASKAN BULL WORM (viz. spongebob)
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- cryptoegorophy 3y agoCan you explain to non English speaker?