Nerd Alert
Today's Nerd Alert goes to Africa, to examine fossilized remains of the species that makes eighth graders everywhere giggle: Homo erectus.
I like the extremely honkified artist's rendering of the now-extinct hominid. Of course, since the universe was created 6000 years ago, these poor fools are obviously deluded, right?
There is a runner up for today's Nerd Alert: Spiders plague Kazakh camels.
These aren't camel spiders, which aren't even true spiders, but solifugae. No, the critters in question are actually spiders, and they are aggressive and dangerous little buggers. Karakurt spiders nasty, evil-looking arachnids that occasionally plague the arid plateaus of Central Asia, but this year's crop is particularly bad. No wonder the Cossacks got the hell out of there.
Today's Nerd Alert goes to Africa, to examine fossilized remains of the species that makes eighth graders everywhere giggle: Homo erectus.
I like the extremely honkified artist's rendering of the now-extinct hominid. Of course, since the universe was created 6000 years ago, these poor fools are obviously deluded, right?
There is a runner up for today's Nerd Alert: Spiders plague Kazakh camels.
These aren't camel spiders, which aren't even true spiders, but solifugae. No, the critters in question are actually spiders, and they are aggressive and dangerous little buggers. Karakurt spiders nasty, evil-looking arachnids that occasionally plague the arid plateaus of Central Asia, but this year's crop is particularly bad. No wonder the Cossacks got the hell out of there.
posted by Jude at 12:00 PM
