Fanged Killer Kangaroo found in Outback...
When I'm bored I click on the Next Blog button, and my God, there's some crap out there. I mean really, truly, totally (someone put some effort into it) extravagently crappy crap.
Take (please take) for instance this: Believers of Whatever
or this: Prophet Shammah Whatever
or even this complete waste of cyberspace: Whatever
In no way are the first two examples intended to be representative, and it is purely coincidence that they are both religious in slant and from a particular faith if not denomination. It just so happens that they were to first to that came to hand again when I sought out examples of the kind of material I had in mind.
Then, occasionally one stumbles upon gold, and this is a wonderful example; certainly as far as the Killer Headline goes, though the substances at least initially is almost worthy of the that headline.
MSN UK News, Latest news bulletins from Reuters, UK, World, Sport, Business and Weather:
Killer kangaroo, demon duck of doom roamed Outback
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Forget cute, cuddly marsupials. A team of Australian palaeontologists say they have found the fossilised remains of a fanged killer kangaroo and what they describe as a 'demon duck of doom'.
A University of New South Wales team said the fearsome fossils were among 20 previously unknown species uncovered at a site in northwest Queensland state [sic].
Professor Michael Archer said on Wednesday the remains of a meat-eating kangaroo with wolf-like fangs were found as well as a galloping kangaroo with long forearms that could not hop like a modern kangaroo.
'Because they didn't hop, these were galloping kangaroos, with big, powerful forelimbs. Some of them had long canines (fangs) like wolves,' Archer told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio.
Vertebrate palaeontologist Sue Hand said modern kangaroos look almost nothing like their ferocious forebears, which lived between 10 million and 20 million years ago.
The species found at the dig had 'well muscled-in teeth, not for grazing. These things had slicing crests that could have crunched through bone and sliced off flesh', Hand said.
The team also found prehistoric lungfish and large duck-like birds.
'Very big birds ... more like ducks, earned the name 'demon duck of doom', some at least may have been carnivorous as well,' Hand told ABC radio.
Archer said the team was studying the fossils to better understand how they were affected by changing climates in the Miocene epoch between 5 million and "
Take (please take) for instance this: Believers of Whatever
or this: Prophet Shammah Whatever
or even this complete waste of cyberspace: Whatever
In no way are the first two examples intended to be representative, and it is purely coincidence that they are both religious in slant and from a particular faith if not denomination. It just so happens that they were to first to that came to hand again when I sought out examples of the kind of material I had in mind.
Then, occasionally one stumbles upon gold, and this is a wonderful example; certainly as far as the Killer Headline goes, though the substances at least initially is almost worthy of the that headline.
MSN UK News, Latest news bulletins from Reuters, UK, World, Sport, Business and Weather:
Killer kangaroo, demon duck of doom roamed Outback
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Forget cute, cuddly marsupials. A team of Australian palaeontologists say they have found the fossilised remains of a fanged killer kangaroo and what they describe as a 'demon duck of doom'.
A University of New South Wales team said the fearsome fossils were among 20 previously unknown species uncovered at a site in northwest Queensland state [sic].
Professor Michael Archer said on Wednesday the remains of a meat-eating kangaroo with wolf-like fangs were found as well as a galloping kangaroo with long forearms that could not hop like a modern kangaroo.
'Because they didn't hop, these were galloping kangaroos, with big, powerful forelimbs. Some of them had long canines (fangs) like wolves,' Archer told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio.
Vertebrate palaeontologist Sue Hand said modern kangaroos look almost nothing like their ferocious forebears, which lived between 10 million and 20 million years ago.
The species found at the dig had 'well muscled-in teeth, not for grazing. These things had slicing crests that could have crunched through bone and sliced off flesh', Hand said.
The team also found prehistoric lungfish and large duck-like birds.
'Very big birds ... more like ducks, earned the name 'demon duck of doom', some at least may have been carnivorous as well,' Hand told ABC radio.
Archer said the team was studying the fossils to better understand how they were affected by changing climates in the Miocene epoch between 5 million and "
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