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Old 02-23-2004, 12:39 PM   #1
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Geologist David J. Siveter of Leicester University (England) wrote in the journal Science in December that he and his team had found a fossil 425 million years old that is probably the oldest record of an unambiguously male animal. They named the half-inch-long shellfish Colymbosathon ecplecticos, which they said means "swimmer with a large penis," referring to its organ that is one-fifth of its body length. [New York Times, 12-4-03]
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Old 02-24-2004, 12:18 AM   #2
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Must be a relative. [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]
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Old 02-24-2004, 12:23 AM   #3
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Either that or Sythe has taken my advice [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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Old 02-24-2004, 12:32 AM   #4
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That's an interesting creature. LOL.
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Old 02-24-2004, 12:52 AM   #5
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::sniff:: Why is it always men who come up with names like that?
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Old 02-24-2004, 12:57 AM   #6
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::sniff:: Why is it always men who come up with names like that?
Because women would have chosen something sensible. At least it's not Latin slang for something. Or maybe the scientists are coming up with the slang as we speak.
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Old 02-24-2004, 01:48 AM   #7
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Nice sig, Pirengle! I don't particularly like Edwin, but I LIKE THE SIG!!!! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]
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Old 02-24-2004, 09:15 AM   #8
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The name *might* be slang, for all we know. I certainly don't speak Latin. It could easily be translated online, of course, but that takes the fun out of it.
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Old 02-24-2004, 10:46 PM   #9
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Old 02-24-2004, 10:59 PM   #10
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The name is Greek Actually. Colymbo (swim) ecplecticos (teriffic, amazing)
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