Comments on: New rodent species discovered https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/ Mon, 04 Apr 2022 02:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: AKA https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533467 Thu, 21 May 2009 09:08:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533467 We should play with science to better ourselves and to figure out the real meaning of things and creatures. Don’t be scared of what might come of it because hey “sh*t happens” and we control the earth no one else, this is our lives and we should know everything about it. The whole thing about trying to play so called “GOD” is funny….its belief not reality…step into the real world

]]> By: Cath the Canberra Cook https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533466 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:21:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533466 Really, Lassi Hippeläinen, if you’re going to read American-based blog, you should learn to recognise Fahrenheit. 110C, now that’s obviously ridiculous. The rest it, of course, perfectly plausible. 🙂

]]> By: RBH https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533465 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:59:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533465 That story actually isn’t as implausible as it might seem. After all, every fall snowbirds migrate south, laying iceworm eggs as they go. That white stuff on the ground in the winter is the broken shells of iceworm eggs, the iceworm larvae having hatched out and burrowed into the ground to over-winter, emerging in the warmth of spring as slush puppies.

]]> By: Ruth https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533464 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:07:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533464 My favorite line:

a big pack of ice borers got him

]]> By: Andrew https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533463 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:05:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533463 I remember the original well. And it was followed by many letters to the editor a month or two later

]]> By: Kate https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533462 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:48:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533462 Ok, that got me. EVEN THOUGH I have been reading up recently on the evolution of mammalian body temperature regulation. You would think I would have known better…

]]> By: Aaron Luchko https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533461 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:29:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533461 Nice, it had me until ‘”They travel through the ice at surprisingly high speeds, ” says Pazzo, “much faster than a penguin can waddle.”‘. At which point I remembered what day it was 🙂

]]> By: DuWayne https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533460 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:19:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533460 Ok, the mutant naked mole rat makes me very, very happy. Or it could just be the last of the Seroquel finally having dissipated. Either way, it’s a beautiful morning and the mutant made it even better…

]]> By: ppnl https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533459 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:26:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533459 I remember when this story first appeared in Discover. There was some blow back from it because it fooled a lot of people who should have known better.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533458 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:29:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/01/new-rodent-species-discovered/#comment-533458 Ana, these cook themselves. So they would make bad Rodent Sushi.

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