What the heck is this?

[IHateMyJob2004]

Someone posted this in another thread My question is, what animal is it? I want to read up on it.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b22_1212047820

 

[olds]

Why does it need a new thread?

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Why does it need a new thread?

Because it was stuffed into a middle of a discussion about aliens life which 90% of you probably arn't going to read or play catch up on.

Oh, I forgot to mention .... thanks for the help.

 

[S Freud]

Looks like the things that would attach to faces in the alien movies.

 

[hiromizu]

Some more info

another video

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

hiromizu,

COOL!

 

[Kadarin]

Interesting. Perhaps the trilobite never went extinct after all.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Interesting. Perhaps the trilobite never went extinct after all.

That's what I was thinking when I saw the video. Pretty darn close.

that or some kind of horseshoe crab

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: hiromizu
Some more info

another video

Flashblock FTW! The second link is a RickRoll.

 

[jjones]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notostraca

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

To answe one of the earlier questions ... the answers I have received is the reason that I started a new thread.

 

[dennilfloss]

It's the biggest notostracan I've ever seen (including fossil ones)!

More pics.

http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=1633

 

[hiromizu]

http://images.google.com/image...ani&btnG=Search+Images

 

[CptCrunch]

damn, that thing is whack