Thursday, February 5, 2009

Ex-Extinctions

Recently, an extinct species of mountain goat, the Ibex was resurrected by cloning, but dyed in 7 seconds due to collapsed lungs. Of course, it brings about the discussion of whether or not I will be able to have a pet T-rex in 30 years or not. Doubtful, but I'm optimistic.

Today, CNN posted a story on a pretty cool, Ice Cube, related archaeological discovery. Scientists discovered a snake that would have been LARGER than the snake depicted in Cube's Andaconda movie.


The snake, named, Titanboa, probably AVERAGED 42.7 feet and at its greatest width would have reached your hip. Now how about resurrecting THAT. Literally, would make Zenga's nightmare a reality.

Another interesting thing is that based on its size, scientists are able to calculate the average temperature of its environment of the tropical rainforests of Columbia. The average temp would of have been 91 degrees, 10 degrees warmer than now. Whether or not "global warming" is happening, Earth has seen an extremely wide range of climates.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

two things. 1) have faith, your dreams of having a t-rex pet will come to fruition before we are 50 years old, mark my words 2) this is unrelated to your post, but did you see the one second High Life commercial during the Super Bowl? I thought that was the best one, but MC Hammer was pretty good too

Anonymous said...

ps this is laurila...

Luis Portugal said...

Hello
It has a nice blog.
Sorry not write more, but my English is bad writing.
A hug from my country, Portugal