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Hungry Critters Attack NYC Ships

livescience.com — The city's waterfront is getting cleaner, and bothersome river critters not seen in hundreds of years are once again attacking wooden ships and piers.

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  • EochaidRiata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"In the first decade of the century, civil engineers found 10-foot-tall deposits of human waste at the bottom of the waterway."

    Reminds me of the Ganges.

    "it wasn't until the Clean Water Act of 1972 that wildlife began fully returning to the harbor."

    Thank you Richard M. Nixon.
  • choicetoes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Spoiler: gribbles! OMG! I'd name my dog that!

    Seriously, can you think of a cooler name for a critter? That word could BE critter.
  • flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5and no pictures.............
  • Toon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4As a pirate myself, I'm very excited about this news. These gribbles are only the beginning. Pretty soon because of pirate activity against cruise liners in open waters off the coast of Somalia and other countries, some Carnival ships are going to bring back cannons.

    Somebody get scurvy's agent on the phone; he's making a Travolta-in-Pulp-Fiction style comeback. Battlefield Earth 2 just got its leading man.
    • ubuwalker31, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Dude, your not a pirate. But you clearly have been molested by his noodly appendage.
  • ATLBeer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7So was this a case of cleaning up pollution causing problems?

    Hey environmentalists... Your in trouble now ;-)
    • kefler, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1your retarded.
    • swankboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2That's "you're," retard.
    • kefler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1^^ you might note the spelling of the original comment. Wow you're dense.

      sorry, I mean "your dense".
  • manicdvln, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9OH NO!!! THE ENVIRONMENT IS GETTING CLEANER! HOW WILL WE BE ABLE COPE!
    • raindogmx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1...specially if we humans are pollutants instead of polluters.
  • zspade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ah, that's The Trouble With Gribbles!

    I gotta wonder if that's where Startrek got it's Tribbles from... They were pretty troublesome too, if I remember correctly, and on a ship no less.
  • Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3critters: attack of the gribbles
    would make a great scifi movie
  • Eicos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Dugg for the title.
  • mijogiffin, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1TFA is not so much scientific reasons for sex as it is medical reasons. The scientific reasons are more fundamental, like the increase in genetic diversity it affords potential progeny. this has a massive impact on population genetic diversity, and hence survival in the face of new selective pressures. recombination of chromosomes during meiosis provides a huge increase in genetic diversity over just mitotic division.

    for a basic intro:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_sex
    • dennisplucinik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2your post is very pretentious.
    • madsci, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@mijogriffin huh? were you trying to comment on another digg article about the scientific reasons for having sex. this article is about gribbles and fecal matter. you're lost man.
  • elizoid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Gribble is the greatest word I have ever seen. Dugg.
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