Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Them!

LiveScience: "Almost 50 million years ago, ants the size of hummingbirds roamed what is now Wyoming, a new fossil discovery reveals. These giant bugs may have crossed an Arctic land bridge between Europe and North America during a particularly warm period in Earth's history."

4 comments:

Marsdon said...

And those are the small grease eaters, not the large carnivorous desert variety . . .

Cap'n Bob said...

Talk about pests at a picnic.

Charles Gramlich said...

Yeah, down here we call 'em fire ants. Not quite that big but with a helluva bite.

Randy Johnson said...

And a nice reference to one of my favorite fifties monster movies.