Friday, April 02, 2004

ANSP 21350

What comes to mind when you look at the title to this post?  An interstate trucking company’s licensing number?  An industrial solvent?  A part number?  If you thought any of those mentioned, you would be incorrect.  ANSP 21350 is a designation given to an unknown animal,

”...an ambush predator that used its limbs to hold itself steady in the current of a shallow stream until prey came along.”

At least that’s the best guess, so far, based on an arm bone found along a Pennsylvania highway.  An arm bone which has been christened with the distinction of ”...could be the earliest example of an arm bone.”

Could be, I guess.

From a BBC News article titled “Fossil may be earliest arm bone.”

Via Fred Lapides.

Posted by John Venlet on 04/02 at 05:46 AM
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