1,000+ New Species Discovered!

[KingKronic420]

thought this was interesting:jointsmile:

More than 1,000 species discovered in Mekong: WWF - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081215/sc_afp/sciencethailandseasiawildlife_081215132156)

[sickstrings84]

That's pretty cool...especially the fact that they found that rat that was supposed to have been extinct 11 million years ago? What's next, are they gonna rediscover dinosaurs alive and well somewhere??
All I gotta say though, is keep that 11.8 inch spider away from me...gives me the creeps just thinking about it...lol.

[DOUGAL25]

519 new plants, eh? Wonder how many possible future-medicines are lurking within these, not just mmj-related.

[JohnnyZ]

What's next, are they gonna rediscover dinosaurs alive and well somewhere??

Alligators and crocodiles have been stuck at the same evolutionary stage for the last 100 million years or something, haven't they? That technically makes them dinosaurs.

[sickstrings84]

Alligators and crocodiles have been stuck at the same evolutionary stage for the last 100 million years or something, haven't they? That technically makes them dinosaurs.

Not neccesarily though, mosquitos also have changed little, if at all in the same amount of time, and are not dinosaurs, or anything similar.

[TomBomb]

Actually just read this article right before coming here. I thought that hot pink millipede that produces cyanide was pretty wild! Theres tens of millions of undiscovered species left, though, and a lot of crustaceans have been evolutionarily unchanged for something like 500 million years.

[sickstrings84]

Actually just read this article right before coming here. I thought that hot pink millipede that produces cyanide was pretty wild! Theres tens of millions of undiscovered species left, though, and a lot of crustaceans have been evolutionarily unchanged for something like 500 million years.

Hell yeah, the ocean is still HIGHLY un-explored..who knows what may be found out there once we are able to start exploring farther out and deeper...

[JohnnyZ]

To date, we have only explored 3% of the total water on this earth.

Think about that.

[bobthenuker]

What's next, are they gonna rediscover dinosaurs alive and well somewhere??
All I gotta say though, is keep that 11.8 inch spider away from me...gives me the creeps just thinking about it...lol.

What's it called, a coelacanth was caught off the coast of Africa, that's a dinosaur, I would love to see that spider in person, though not touch it.

[sickstrings84]

To date, we have only explored 3% of the total water on this earth.

Think about that.

Wow...3% huh? I guess were moving right along in that field huh??? or not. lol.


What's it called, a coelacanth was caught off the coast of Africa, that's a dinosaur, I would love to see that spider in person, though not touch it.

That's cool, I don't think I ever heard of that...as far as the spider goes...I don't think I would want to be anywhere near it. I saw enough gigantic spiders in Iraq to last me a lifetime...stupid Camel Spiders...ugh.

[bobthenuker]

That's cool, I don't think I ever heard of that...as far as the spider goes...I don't think I would want to be anywhere near it. I saw enough gigantic spiders in Iraq to last me a lifetime...stupid Camel Spiders...ugh.

Yea those things are monsters! Did you ever see the picture of what really looks like a huge one, but it's really two (1 devouring the other), with a soldier holding it up? I was watching a show quite a while ago, I think on the history channel, don't remember which one though, and some 19th century explorer visited the amazon I think it was, and in his diary he stated that one breed of spider walked across the road, almost as big as his jeep. Imagine seeing that thing walking across your home.

[sickstrings84]

Yea those things are monsters! Did you ever see the picture of what really looks like a huge one, but it's really two (1 devouring the other), with a soldier holding it up? I was watching a show quite a while ago, I think on the history channel, don't remember which one though, and some 19th century explorer visited the amazon I think it was, and in his diary he stated that one breed of spider walked across the road, almost as big as his jeep. Imagine seeing that thing walking across your home.

Yeah...they can get rather large...most of the ones I saw in Iraq were prolly like 4", not too huge, but way too big for an arachnaphobe such as myself to wanna ever deal with. I think I've seen that picture that you're talking about, those damn things will eat anything they can get their fangs on, esp. each other. The biggest one I saw was dead and it was about 7-8" legspan, creeped me out for days, I was constantly checking all my gear for spiders for the whole 13 months I was over there.
A spider the size of a Jeep?!? I think that would be the point that I would turn around and say fuck the Amazon, I'm going home...lol.

[bobthenuker]

Yeah...they can get rather large...most of the ones I saw in Iraq were prolly like 4", not too huge, but way too big for an arachnaphobe such as myself to wanna ever deal with. I think I've seen that picture that you're talking about, those damn things will eat anything they can get their fangs on, esp. each other. The biggest one I saw was dead and it was about 7-8" legspan, creeped me out for days, I was constantly checking all my gear for spiders for the whole 13 months I was over there.
A spider the size of a Jeep?!? I think that would be the point that I would turn around and say fuck the Amazon, I'm going home...lol.

Definitely, I hate spiders too. I agree with Johnny though, the ocean is where it's at man...we should spend less time exploring space and more time the ocean. A lot of deep canyons underwater, hiding krakens, trunkos, and whatnot. Look at this picture...http://beatledude.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/kraken.jpg that is creepy shit man.

[KingKronic420]

Wow...3% huh? I guess were moving right along in that field huh??? or not. lol.

well as of right now we can only go so far down. pressure and darkness are 2 huge contributors as to why we are at a halt on farther exploration under the sea.

spiders creep me out, although it would be cool just to see one that big.:stoned: