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I ran up on this article about tardigrades. I'd never heard of them so I skimmed a bit - and they are really remarkable organisms. Give it a look.

Tardigrades, the toughest animals on Earth, have crash-landed on the moon

 

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Cockroaches and tardigrades in a steel cage match. Winner inherits the earth.

 

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Water bears are what you get
Walking on the moon.
I just hope they don’t get wet.
Walking on the moon.
They don’t care ‘bout weather.
Walking on the moon.
They will live forever.
Walking on, Walking on the moon.

 

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Cockroaches and tardigrades in a steel cage match. Winner inherits the earth.

After they beat Keith Richards in the championship match.

 

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Does Keef get a bye into the championship match?

 

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After they beat Keith Richards in the championship match.

Watching Keith go down will be vindicating after what he did to Abe Vigoda in the semis...

 

[DanOregon]

Sure I'm not the only one giggling at the headline....as it appears on CNN's website (glad they clarified it).

Possible new organ in the human throat discovered by Dutch scientists

Possible new organ may have been found in throat: Tubarial salivary glands - CNN

 

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I honestly didn't know gators walked like this - always figured they kind of slithered around. Kind of terrifying. You hear the term "alligator arms" this dude's arms are like DJ Metcalf's.

Here is a massive alligator on a Florida golf course

 

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They can run fast

 

[MileHigh]

I honestly didn't know gators walked like this - always figured they kind of slithered around. Kind of terrifying. You hear the term "alligator arms" this dude's arms are like DJ Metcalf's.

Here is a massive alligator on a Florida golf course

As a California guy, when I moved to Florida two decades ago, I made sure I was on at least a second-floor apartment. Because, well, alligators.

 

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They can run fast as hell for a short distance, maybe forty feet. Fast enough to be on you before you can react if you get too close. They're good at being still and looking like a log, then nailing the unwary.

 

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They can run fast as hell for a short distance, maybe forty feet. Fast enough to be on you before you can react if you get too close. They're good at being still and looking like a log, then nailing the unwary.

They also growl like a dog when irritated. Don't ask how I know that.

 

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When I was a kid in the Boy Scouts, we did a week of summer camp on Blackbeard's Island. It's a barrier island on the Georgia coast and a National Wildlife Refuge. I was walking down the dirt road to the beach one day when I came around a turn and there was a log lying across the road. Got a little closer and realized that it was a big gator, at least ten feet long. He was sunning and went from one edge of the road across and off the other.

Once I realized this, I didn't stay close long enough to hear how he sounded. I'll take your word for it.

 

[maumann]

When I was a kid in the Boy Scouts, we did a week of summer camp on Blackbeard's Island. It's a barrier island on the Georgia coast and a National Wildlife Refuge. I was walking down the dirt road to the beach one day when I came around a turn and there was a log lying across the road. Got a little closer and realized that it was a big gator, at least ten feet long. He was sunning and went from one edge of the road across and off the other.

Once I realized this, I didn't stay close long enough to hear how he sounded. I'll take your word for it.

Was running the parcourse (fitness trail) around Lake Alice at dusk in Gainesville through the mangrove trees when I tripped and fell. Heard that growl and knew one of the resident alligators was very, very close. I leapt up and sprinted back to the car. I probably clipped a mangrove root but it's much more fun to think it was the gator's tail.

 

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Funny how quickly we can move when we have the proper incentive.

 

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Sad day for science.

 

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Scientists reveal the world's first ever complete T-rex skeleton | Daily Mail Online

 

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This is the first photo sent back by the UAE's Mars probe.

First glorious photo of Mars arrives from UAE's Hope probe

 

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