[Gabriel]

Possible 25 million year old frog specimen in amber....I would love to have him as a pendant. I have a few amber pendants, but none like this

Actually I have leaves that are siver plated pendants and barrettes, and enameled flowers...

and my most unusual natural jewelry was (I don't have them anymore)....moose poop earrings...I am not kidding, a friend that made nature jewelry gave them to me...I thought they were tiny pinecones, and I put them in my ears all happy, and he told me what they were, and I almost fell through the floor....but they were dried droppings, and well laquered....I did give them away



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17168489/

[Gabriel]

This kind of fits into the Lost Worlds theme...at least lost in translation through time

Called....Medieval Mosques Illuminated by Math

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=7544360

[ekim68]

Wow, Gabriel, cool stuff. Looks like a lot of this comes back to math, too.

[Gabriel]

Yes Ekim...pretty math

[Gabriel]

More new species This time in Antarctica.

Ice collapse exposes Antarctic beauty

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/s...07/1856913.htm

[Gabriel]

Biologists record call of Cuckoo bird thought to be extinct

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...LL.xml&src=rss

[ekim68]

Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula on the west coast of North America. Their habitat lies on the Eastern side of the Olympic mountain range, adjacent to Hood Canal. These solitary cephalopods reach an average size (measured from arm-tip to mantle-tip,) of 30-33 cm. Unlike most other cephalopods, tree octopuses are amphibious, spending only their early life and the period of their mating season in their ancestral aquatic environment. Because of the moistness of the rainforests and specialized skin adaptations, they are able to keep from becoming desiccated for prolonged periods of time, but given the chance they would prefer resting in pooled water.

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

[Gabriel]

...whoa

[Knotbored]

That tree octipod is proof positive for the sasquach-otherwise they wouldn't be so dang hard to catch.
I can almost hear the screems now from a family of them surrounded by bigfoots !
wow I need another beer if I am to consider all the implications.

[Gabriel]

New Genus of Albino Millipedes found....

'Living fossils' will help researchers understand how life evolved in caves

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17400829/

[Gabriel]

Stone towers make up up oldest observatory in Peru

13 Towers of Chankilla

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...RY.xml&src=rss

[ekim68]

That's cool Gabriel...2300 years ago...Amazing amount of awareness....
For the time.....

[Gabriel]

500 + Million year old new prehistoric species (Orthrozanclus) found

http://www.livescience.com/animalwor...airy_bugs.html

[Gabriel]

Archeologists uncover ancient marketplace in Athens...4th - 5th century BC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17424039/

Museum IDs new species of horned Dino....may represent an intermidiate step in evolution

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17443393/

[ekim68]

Thanks Gabriel, interesting stuff. It's amazing to me that earlier civilizations were built upon
for so long, and we're now uncovering them....I think the building part is gone, but the discoveries are fantastic...