Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by aftoprokrustes on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:51AM
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Let'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.
Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by shafyy on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:59AM
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Looks like you accidentally pasted the content of what seems like an SMS with a login code. I'd delete that ;-)
Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by aftoprokrustes on Monday January 08, 2024 @06:36AM
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Indeed... Too late for that, but it will teach me to proof read every comment before hitting send!
On the positive side, no comment of mine ever generated that much engagement!
Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by RuggedPineapple on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:00AM
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>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
I think you accidently hit control-v in the middle of a word
Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by eino on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:00AM
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I take your (or the worm's) bank account access was not meant to be in this comment?
Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by gilleain on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:47AM
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Bigger : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchaetus_rappi can grow to 6.7m !
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.