fourty feet long and ten feet diameter? This lard ball only crushed its prey by rolling over them. it couldn't bend itself with dimensions like that. Like folding a phone book in half.

was the 30ft dragonflies of the Carboniferous period when all our oil and coal was being laid down. The size of an insect is limited by how much oxygen its primitive breathing system can absorb. What percentage of oxygen would the atmosphere have to have to support a 30ft dragonfly?

Sea algea produces far more O2.

What percentage of deforestation is attributable to biofuel plantations, exactly?

So biofuel - bad, climate change - good for trees.

Oh, just a moment, I thought you previously suggested that climate change was a myth?

Given particular views on new tech, especially emergant env. tech, did you also argue against unleaded petrol, and for dumping nuclear waste at sea? Now you're jesting that climate change would be positive!!

Excuse me, I prefer my rejurgated news without a spinkling of luddite BS, and the revenue from my page hit to go somewhere more worthy.

"fourty feet long and ten feet diameter? This lard ball only crushed its prey by rolling over them. it couldn't bend itself with dimensions like that. Like folding a phone book in half."

I think you mis-read; it's 40 feet long and 10 feet in GIRTH around it's fattest bit. I suppose all things are relative, so if it was squishing a sabre-toothed tiger or something it would be able to bend enough.

Can't wait until global warming gets to the point where we can expect to see these at Twycross Zoo. Hell, we could feed elephants to it!!

Paris, 'cos she knows what to do with a big snake (allegedly).

Shurely you would have to swing past Number 10 and Number 11 and rid us of Broooooooon and Dorkling first? And please take your snake walkies/slithers through Hollywood as there are a number of gormless luvvies that need to stop telling us how to live from up in their ivory towers.

10ft around means >3ft diameter.

Does this remind anyone of the worms of Arakis?

They've been living underground in the Nevada desert for at nearly 20 years now.

Playing in the back yard while Pa enjoys a nice cocktail as the snake steaks cook on the grill. Oh look, the neighbors are bringing a salad and wine, how thoughtful.

+1 for global-warmingists. Now we can scare children with giant snakes if they don't finish their CO2 emissions.

...but how big were the badgers?

The should have been using electric cars, silly goofs.

You meant 30 inches (wingspan) dragonflies. That's 2.5 ft.

And using proper measurement units (SI) would make things much clearer, methinks.

Giant dragonfly icon.

I suspect Al Gore bored them to death with all of his talk of Global Cooling.

Titanoboa!

On a more serious note, won't you be sorry when they swim over to England and you've got nothing to shoot them with. Now then, does this clip go to the M16 or the AK?

Badger goes well with mushrooms

@Phil Royall: Living in the Nevada desert? Why weren't they hiding with the rest of the dinosaurs behind the sofa?

Icon: Trussssst in meeeee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s46SgIBpQ-Q

... can shrink the rainforests faster.

Anyway - i hear in this recession no one is going to starbux anymore....

Neither! Both take magazines not clips.