Gizmo Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 'Monstrously Big Ant' Fossil Found in Wyoming-My link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 In the words of Yogi Bear - "keep away from my pick-u-nick basket!" That's a serious ant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 OK, everybody relax; it's a fossil! >Direct link to article< "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 (edited) WOW.... what a monstrous fossil insect! Bruce Archibald certainly is making the rounds. Nothing like this found at McAbee I bet! Edited January 28, 2012 by piranha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear-dog Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Holy Moly! Bet he would leave a mark. Bear-dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 You're going to give me nightmares I've been fighting off the early spring ants in my house all week... I just imagined them that size. An ant that big doesn't sneak through cracks it uses the front door! Awesome news though, I'll be reading that pdf shortly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Aha! From the Farson Fish beds in Wyoming. Another "Off Limits" collecting site for him. -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 cool ant... cool story, but Shamalama... did I miss something? I didn't see any reference to the Farson fish beds in the story. Green River Fm of Wyoming, yes, but not Farson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 In the Link that Auspex posted, it only mentions the Green River formation. But the link that Pirahna posted is to a .pdf file of the actual paper. Within it says that the fossil came from the Farson Fish beds. Page three, lower left under © Locality and Age. -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Only 2 inches long... that is a baby. Here is a picture from a documentary I saw as a child: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 In the Link that Auspex posted, it only mentions the Green River formation. But the link that Pirahna posted is to a .pdf file of the actual paper. Within it says that the fossil came from the Farson Fish beds. Page three, lower left under © Locality and Age. Thanks, I totally missed the pdf link. I like that they used a hummingbird for scale in the actual paper.... good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullsnake Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 Thanks, I totally missed the pdf link. I like that they used a hummingbird for scale in the actual paper.... good stuff. And the way the pest control companies linked their ads. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 Only 2 inches long... that is a baby. Here is a picture from a documentary I saw as a child: SHOOT THE ANTENNAE!!!! Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diplotomodon Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 You're going to give me nightmares I've been fighting off the early spring ants in my house all week... I just imagined them that size. An ant that big doesn't sneak through cracks it uses the front door! You ain't the only one...stinkbugs are enough of a problem. That is one heck of an ant! What a wonderful menagerie! Who would believe that such as register lay buried in the strata? To open the leaves, to unroll the papyrus, has been an intensely interesting though difficult work, having all the excitement and marvelous development of a romance. And yet the volume is only partly read. Many a new page I fancy will yet be opened. -- Edward Hitchcock, 1858 Formerly known on the forum as Crimsonraptor @Diplotomodon on Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 Wow what a ant. Thanks for share news ans pdf ;) Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 (edited) Cool! Very interesting! Huge ant! Edited May 30, 2011 by Odinofthenorth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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