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- blaze03, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13They drowned in the huge flood because Noah couldn't find them.
- ardenr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3They stood up.
- virtualball, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm sory but that is THE coolest bug I've ever seen, well at least in the top 5. :) But the camouflage couldn't have worked too well because where are they now? :D
- nitsuj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Don't feed me any carbon dating bullcrap - no-one can prove its accuracy."
Carbon dating is used for samples upto 60k years old. Unfortunately for you it has proven it's accuracy time and time again. There are a number of other dating techniques for much older time spans - radiometric etc. Not that you're even remotely interested though.
"Were the scientists around 47 million years ago to test the accuracy over long periods?"
Genius. Are you suggesting that the laws of physics have completely changed in recent times? Our finest scientific minds in physics clearly haven't thought this one through. Maybe you should get in touch with them. - resplence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, actually they were.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+147 million year old insects aren't "ancient" as insects go. Most modern orders were well established by then. Hell, 47 million years ago there were even *mammals* which looked like modern mammals.
To find arthropods which don't look like they do today, you'd have to go back to the Carboniferous, some 300 million years ago. Then you'd find centipedes that were three meters long and a foot wide, a dragonfly which had a 70cm wingspan, and a jumping spider the size of a shoebox.
All of the gigantic arthropods disappeared when the vertebrates moved on to land, outcompeting them.
The very earliest insects were, however, very small, and looked something like this: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/uniramia/parainsecta.html and showed up in the world 400 million years ago. Almost 9 times longer ago than the modern insects in this article. - bobishalfdead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm really not surprised, bugs were flying before any bird or dinosaur
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Trilobites aren't insects - they're trilobites.
Their closest relatives are horseshoe crabs and scorpions (which aren't insects either). - itsbaconbits, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If something works, stick with it. Same has to go with body structures that ensure a creature's survival. If a design seems to be effective, in this case having the bug disguise itself from predators, then why not pass those traits on.
I just hoped humans would've had a need to develop flight capabilities. I really hate being stuck in freeway traffic. - cemetz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Interesting insect fossils
http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Tree_of_Life/PhylumArthropoda/ClassTrilobita.htm - Donwatcher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool bug
- billcd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well they found it in the 47 million year old sediment layer! doh! And how did they know how old the sediment layer was? By the fossils they found!
Sounds like good science to me! - thectrlfreak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1But how did they know the sediment layer was 47mil years old? And who says the fossils are 47mil years old?
- thectrlfreak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0That's... insightful. "Yes, actually they were"...
- Lupich, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Tax money at work!
- efishta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Hahaha that might be the funniest comment I've seen on Digg, so I tried to register to digg you up, but it told me that I had already registered... so I logged in and dugg you up. Yeah, so thanks for the funny comment and reminding me that I have an account on Digg.com hehe. :)
- Ramtech, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1this is lame...
- southpawz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1They do. It's called a gilly suit. Snipers use them.
- thectrlfreak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0OMG They look like, exactly the same! OMFG MAYBE BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SAME...
And how do they know its 47 million years old? Don't feed me any carbon dating bullcrap - no-one can prove its accuracy. Were the scientists around 47 million years ago to test the accuracy over long periods? - SirJeannot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0us army soldiers dressed as leaves would be funny :O
- SirJeannot, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I mean a huge leaf, one for the torso, two for the arms and so on, just like this insect :D
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