"Eight-armed animal preceded dinosaurs"

Adsos Letter

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Fri Nov-07-08 10:35 PM
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"Eight-armed animal preceded dinosaurs"

Tuesday, 4 November 2008 Jennifer Viegas
Discovery News

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"The animal was a soft-bodied, dome-shaped organism that lived on seabeds and fed by absorbing dissolved nutrients" (Source: Dr Jim Gehling, South Australian Museum )

Scientists have discovered what they believe is an eight-armed creature, which colonised a large section of the world's oceans over 300 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged.

"The findings represent the first comparable animal fossils from the Ediacaran Period, 635 to 541 million years ago, which appear in two drastically different preservation environments - black shale of South China and quartz rock of South Australia"

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/11/04/2409959.htm?site=science&topic=ancient

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there are some interesting photos at the link....

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BrklynLiberal

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Fri Nov-07-08 10:36 PM
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1. An octopus?? EDIT: I have a better picture here..

Edited on Fri Nov-07-08 10:38 PM by BrklynLiberal

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Adsos Letter

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Fri Nov-07-08 10:39 PM
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5. LOL, I knew someone would see that!... It was one of the first things to enter my mind too...

Edited on Fri Nov-07-08 10:40 PM by adsosletter

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BrklynLiberal

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Fri Nov-07-08 11:01 PM
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6. Great minds......

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Historic NY

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Fri Nov-07-08 11:24 PM
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7. I was thinking SM myself, looks like a pre-winged version.

Edited on Fri Nov-07-08 11:25 PM by Historic NY

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Adsos Letter

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Fri Nov-07-08 11:32 PM
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8. ...proof of evolution of the SM...

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Fri Nov-07-08 10:36 PM
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2. A Bush.

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Fri Nov-07-08 10:39 PM
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4. It sounds like grab-ass Schwarzenegger in his Hollywood days

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Orrex

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Sat Nov-08-08 12:06 AM
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9. Watch out for Flying Polyps, while you're at it

Not that any polyps are a treat, of course.

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