[Non-Ceph] Bits 'n Pieces

[DHyslop]

You're lucky its not a vertebrate--no journal would touch it unless it made its way into a museum or public collection.

 

[Architeuthoceras]

50 my old Spider CT scan, if only they could find that elusive arboreal ammonoid preserved in amber

 

[DWhatley]

The spider is facinating but the technology - wow!

 

[Architeuthoceras]

We can find 500my old Jellyfish, but we cant find ammonoid soft parts. Whats wrong with this picture?

 

[DWhatley]

Maybe cephs can swim away from pine tree sap? Of today's jelly's I think only that awful thing in New Zeland can swim (great special on the box jelly on the TV the other night, Neal no longer wants to dive anywhere south of the equator).

 

[cuttlegirl]

Maybe cephs can swim away from pine tree sap? Of today's jelly's I think only that awful thing in New Zeland can swim (great special on the box jelly on the TV the other night, Neal no longer wants to dive anywhere south of the equator).

Don't tell Neal that there are box jellies in Hawai'i...

 

[monty]

According to this they're the "really hurts and might cause anaphylaxis" box jellies rather than the "can easily kill humans, allergic or not" kind in Hawaii, at least...

I was kayaking in Sausalito among some 6-8 inch moon jellies last weekend, but I didn't have a camera.

 

[cuttlegirl]

According to this they're the "really hurts and might cause anaphylaxis" box jellies rather than the "can easily kill humans, allergic or not" kind in Hawaii, at least...

I was kayaking in Sausalito among some 6-8 inch moon jellies last weekend, but I didn't have a camera.

That's true, I used to see them when I worked in Waikiki at the Natatorium, an old salt water swimming pool. I never encountered them personally though...

 

[DWhatley]

I wish I had written down the name (and channel) of that special - 300 pound jelly fish anyone?

After seeing the moon jellies at our new aquarium we looked into keeping some kind of jelly fish in our 4' tall but only 1' diameter 30 gallon tank. It only took a few minutes of study to kill the idea though. I even asked Ken about getting us the "upside down" jellies that are often seen in the shallows in the keys. He made it very clear that they were "nasty", killed everything where they took up residence and would ruin the tank for other creatures even after they expired, which would not be long after putting them in the tank.

 

[Melissa]

Damn, the aquariums make jellies look so easy to keep! Oh well, I can't have a any tank at all until I have more time at home.

 

[cuttlegirl]

Maybe this is what giant ammonites ate... I knew eurypterids got big, but not this big...

http://http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/news.asp?id=7282

 

[Architeuthoceras]

Very Cool!

 

[tonmo]

Yeah, that's freaky. Here's another article. I wonder how many london buses that is?

 

[Phil]

What a stunning find. Those barbs and hooks on the claws look really vicious.

This many buses Tony?

 

[Clem]

From today's news, word of a recently uncovered (and spectacular sounding) hadrosaur "mummy" from North Dakota, with obligatory pooh-poohing by Jack Horner at his condescending worst. The finder of the fossil is a student of paleontology at Yale. Talk about making one's bones...

Clem