Arthropod Chain Gangs 43
monk writes "Science News references a story in the October 10 Science about Cambrian invertebrates which formed weird permanent chains up to twenty individuals long. 'The discovery of 525-million-year-old fossils belonging to a new species of arthropod shows that these animals formed communal chains never before seen in fossilized invertebrates.' It should be obvious to any Slashdotter of a certain age that this is the true origin of the so called 'centipede' in the eponymous game."
525 million years! (Score:5, Funny)
That's 524,994,000 before Earth was created!
Re:525 million years! (Score:5, Funny)
That's 524,994,000 before Earth was created!
550496256 in hard disk years
Re:525 million years! (Score:1, Funny)
Tapeworm? (Score:3, Funny)
Reminds me of the segmented body of a tape worm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapeworm#Proglottids [wikipedia.org]
This could've been some sort of mating protocol, used for collective trail or possibly the bunny hop....
The conga line... (Score:5, Funny)
it's already Saturday (Score:3, Funny)
and still no "Imagine Beowulf of those!". What the world is coming to?