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24 Messidor CCXIII (July 12, 2005)

(Linkage) An Ugly Little Bug, With Beady Little Eyes

From the Australian Broacasting Corporation:  Musical furry lobster feeling chirpy.

"A bizarre crustacean, tagged the 'musical furry lobster', has been found in Australian waters for the first time.

"It's so unusual, with a furry shell and the ability to chirp, that scientists have placed it in its own genus."

As if the entire article wasn't silly enough already there's also this paragraph:

"Rumour has it the French researchers who discovered the world's first specimen in the 1980s didn't realise its significance. So, they ate it for dinner."

A singing, furry lobster, and you fail to recognise the significance?  Zee mind!  She boggles!

Random sidenote:  will this require us to rethink the popular description of lobsters as "cockroach of the seas"?  Unless, of course, there's some furry cockroach out there that I don't (want to) know about.

Posted by g026r at 14:43
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