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Oldest Bee Ever (pic)
news.nationalgeographic.com — Melittosphex burmensis, which has been trapped in amber for the past hundred million years, is the oldest bee fossil ever discovered. It lived in northern Myanmar (Burma) in Southeast Asia about 35 million to 45 million years earlier than the next oldest specimens known to science.
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- cpmcd2000, on 10/12/2007, -19/+7It would have been better if it was alive still... but neat all the same.
; )- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40Or if it were a magical talking bee who could amaze us with stories of life a hundred million years ago. Maybe he could make a slide show and do a lecture circuit.
Hey, if you're going to wish for the impossible, you may as well go all the way.
P.S. - The bee could also sing stories to school children about why they shouldn't do drugs. - ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6Wasn't this already on the front page this morning, like an hour ago? Is this how the "top users" get to the top?
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2I sorta thought bees from 43 million years ago would be a lot bigger. And wear top hats.
- blobzorz, on 10/12/2007, -12/+8Huh weird... World's only been around for 6,000 years.
- dolemite5005, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3How is this the oldest bee EVER? What about it's mommy and daddy bee? Surely they must have been older.
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"...the oldest bee fossil ever discovered"
- dolemite5005, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Amazing the difference a few missing words from the title can make, huh?
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What's more amazing is the amount of difference a few missing brain cells can make...
- polyGone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Bugmenot digging an insect article......lol :)
- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40Or if it were a magical talking bee who could amaze us with stories of life a hundred million years ago. Maybe he could make a slide show and do a lecture circuit.
- whiteguysamurai, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Horray for Bee week!
- maxsunset, on 10/12/2007, -13/+14I say they extract some DNA and use it to clone a dinosaur! ah *****, nevermind, thats only mosqitos...
- tm8992, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Dugg down? :P Don't you people watch Jurassic Park?
- MaSC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2There's the slight problem of bee's not sucking blood...
- UberC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Dino-DNA?
- Pharaoh777, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Bees don't bite - but perhaps some prehistoric pollen we could clone?
- kolop1, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5Wait my pastor told me the earth is only 6,000 years old. It's no wonder I became an agnostic.
- MrSidnet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Sweet, someone else with Pastors. Most of the time i hear about mentionings of Priests, not so much pastors.
- avcore, on 10/12/2007, -21/+1www.duggmirror.com
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you missed the http:// and misspelled mirror - dosterm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yes, but it was a good try. Hang in there buddy!
- tpaine, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5http://www.duggmirror.com
- Promeathus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5http://www.duggmirror.com
- thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3[Conan O'Brien Voice]
*holds flashlight under chin and puts on bad costume*
In the year 2,000,000 Beeeeeeeeeeeee Ceeeeeeeeeee
[/Conan Voice] - eric0213, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Phew, I thought it was going to be a naked picture of Bea Arthur.
- hisjap2003, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"This tiny, ancient insect has created an enormous buzz"
...
* Shakes head and rolls eyes * - jfujita, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Anyone else read the title as "Oldest Beer Ever"?
- Primedeath, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I did, and when I clicked the link I became very disappointed.
=-(
Still Dugg though. :)
- Primedeath, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I did, and when I clicked the link I became very disappointed.
- mage1129, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Duplicate Front page story.
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Oldest_bee_fossil_creates_new_buzz_LiveScience_MSNBC_com - Denver80203, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1ever FOUND.
Unless this happens to be the first bee ever.
no digg - berfmurret, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2wow. i didnt read this thirty minutes ago on this site. newp. not me.
- polyGone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow you mean these articles come from some other place on the internet?!!?
- Pyloff, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Thats an interesting story... totally ***** but interesting.
- polyGone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1UMM exactly what part is *****? I don't know why I am feeding the troll, but I just gotta hear this one.....
- Pyloff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well since they never actually date anything... I sniff a smurf here. That there are no real facts and the whole story is purely conjecture... I'm not sure.
- eworkhard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0How did they date this baby anyway?
- Esstee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1So... no evolution in bee's in over 100 million years? Strange phenomenon I say...
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You silly person. That's not how it works. And who said that there hadn't been any anway?
- Esstee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Looks like a bee to me. - I don't buy the age myself, like most dating games, I think its based on wishful thinking.
- nitsuj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"So... no evolution in bee's in over 100 million years? Strange phenomenon I say..."
It appears that you are wilfully ignorant or that you didn't even read the article.
Quoted from the article:
*** QUOTE ***
"What's very interesting about this fossil is that it isn't really attributable to any modern group that we can think of or any bee family that exists," Danforth said.
In fact, the diminutive insect, which is a mere 0.12 inch (2.95 millimeters) long, appears to have characteristics of both bees and wasps—and may even be a link between the two.
*** UNQUOTE ***
"Looks like a bee to me."
The above quote illustrates that you don't look very hard. - polyGone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Right in the article it says it has characteristics of wasps and bees. Will fully ignorant is correct. Please let go of you 1rst century world view and think for a moment. You didn't even try to understand.
Lets ditch science and see where this civilization would be without it.
- robbiedo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I, for one, welcome our Melittosphex burmensis overlords?
Sorry, it just rolls off the tongue.
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