>Bob Dole?

No way! It's gotta be Strom Thurman... oh, wait. He's a reptile. Nevermind.

Nope, he's on viagra!

I heard you shrink with age. I suppose that's what you'd get for being 195 million years old.

Now what I think is interesting, is the question whether this paperclip was extinct in the same period as the dinosaurs or if it survived the meteor-impact that is supposed to have put an end to the dinosaurs. Or maybe it developed so quickly that after just a few centuries it had evolved into something like a mouse? After all, animals can develop rather quickly if the conditions are right. If so, we're never going to find remnants of it that are younger than 40 million years (that's when the dinosaurs disappeared, if I'm right).

The BBC also had an article on it a few days ago here [bbc.co.uk].
The Washington Post has this little piece [washingtonpost.com] on the creature.
The NYTimes didn't seem to have anything. Discover as linked in the story has the best coverage [discovery.com], but the font the story is in is really small.

Bob Dole?

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