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Mon Aug 18, 2014 8:08 pm
Hallucigenia revealed: The most surreal creature from strangest period in history of life on Earth
Steve Connor
Saturday 16 August 2014
independent.co.uk
If Salvadore Dali were God, he would surely have designed an animal that looked like Hallucigenia. It has been described as the most surreal creature that lived in the strangest period in the history of life on Earth, more than 500 million years ago. After more than four decades of studying fossilised imprints, scientists believe they have finally nailed Hallucigenia’s position in the tree of life, and in the process discovered its only living descendants.
Hallucigenia, named because of its dream-like, trip-inducing appearance, is one of the many marine animals that rather abruptly appear in the fossil record during a period in pre-history known as the Cambrian explosion, a biological bang that detonated the evolution of complex life-forms about 542 million years ago.
Until the Cambrian explosion, life had been bumbling along for about three billion years, with evolution producing nothing much more animate than a bath sponge. After the explosion, creatures with complex body plans evolved that walked, crawled, swam and burrowed – and Hallucigenia was one of...
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| Smack The Pony (sketch show - ENG) |
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Sat Aug 16, 2014 12:12 am
Smack The Pony
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| Standup Comedy |
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Tue Aug 12, 2014 3:29 am
Kevin Bridges - Commonwealth Comedy 2014
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| Spaced (sitcom - ENG) |
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Sat Aug 09, 2014 3:12 pm
Spaced
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| Extras (sitcom - ENG) |
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Sat Aug 09, 2014 3:10 pm
Extras
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| Crap Criminals |
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Fri Aug 08, 2014 1:44 am
Man fined for pretending to be ghost in Portsmouth cemetery
Police spokesman says witnesses complained about Anthony Stallard 'throwing his arms in the air and saying woooooo'
The Guardian,
August 7th 2014
A man has been fined for pretending to be a ghost and other rowdy behaviour in a cemetery. Anthony Stallard pleaded guilty at Portsmouth magistrates court to using threatening or abusive words or behaviour likely to cause distress.
The court heard that the 24-year-old had been out drinking with friends when they went to Kingston cemetery in Portsmouth, where they started to play football. A Hampshire police spokesman said that witnesses complained to police about Stallard's rowdy behaviour and his pretending to be a ghost. "The witnesses reported the group engaging in rowdy behaviour and one of them throwing their arms in the air and saying 'woooooo'," he said. Stallard, of Southsea, Hampshire, was fined £35 and ordered to pay a £20 victim surcharge and £20 in costs.
He also had an extra three months added to a conditional charge for previous harassment which he was found to be in breach of, according to a...
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| Salmond v Darling - Scottish Independence Debate |
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Tue Aug 05, 2014 10:42 pm
Salmond v Darling - Scottish Independence Debate
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| Odd Sports |
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Mon Aug 04, 2014 1:15 am
Racing The Sahara
A feature on the people who walk run across the Sahara, like maniacs, for fun.
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