17 Million Year Old Nuts Found In Germany

[matcom]

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Scientists in Germany have announced the discovery of a petrified hoard of 17-million-year-old nuts they say form the oldest known cache of stored food.

"These fossilized nuts are the oldest proof we have for mammals laying in food stores," Martin Sander, a paleontologist from Bonn university, told Reuters on Tuesday. "In fact, they're the oldest store of food yet known from any animal."

His Bonn university colleague Carole Gee discovered the fossilized golden chinquapin nuts in a lignite mine near the western town of Garzweiler 10 years ago, but has only now gone public following extensive study of the findings.

"The nuts were very probably stored by a hamster or perhaps a ground squirrel," Gee said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=1&u=/nm/20031125/od_nm/fossils_dc

[slackmaster]

1. I wonder if it was a Saber-Toothed Hamster

Or Giant Ground Squirrel.

[brainshrub]

2. Probably was this guys ancestor:

I LOVE THE NUTS!

By Danny The Squirrel

I'm a squirrel on the go. I've got trees to climb and streets to cross. If anybody asks what keeps me going when squirrel duties pile up, I got one word for them: nuts! I know it's a stereotype that squirrels go crazy for nuts, but in my case, it's 100 percent true. I make no apologies or excuses. Why should I? I fully admit that I love the nuts!

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http://theonion.com/3945/opinion1.html

[THUNDER HANDS]

3. (Q): What did the first man say to the second man after finding out

he had nuts that were 17 million years old?

(a): "Boy they must itch, huh?"

:D

[arwalden]

4. I Have A Question...

Does the headline mean:
"17 Million-Year-Old Nuts Found In Germany"

Or does it mean:
"17-Million Year-Old Nuts Found In Germany"

[kodi]

5. 17 million years to petrifiy nuts? it took only 2 years of marriage for me

.

[onebigbadwulf]

6. That's silly

the Earth is only 6,000 years old :crazy:

[Drifter]

7. Ok bring on the Reagan jokes ...

Germany ?, I thought this nut lived in California.

Cheers
Drifter

[Loonman]

8. So Reagan was a Prehistoro-Nazi!

:)

[phaseolus]

9. fark.com thread in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

n/t

[Garage Queen]

10. But...I thought Skinner banned sex threads?

Now, where was that "alert" button .... :evilgrin: