Just curious about any NYT article that gets only 3 (maybe 4 now) comments. I see why now. Yes, they are weird animals, but I think we’re a ways off from uncovering the importance angle.
So glad that comments were enabled though!
Imagine how dull and repetitive they’d be if they were enabled on lead stories dealing with Barr’s discussions with the White House before the Mueller Report is released.
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The story speaks of a sea spider that drapes over your hand. The Alaskan King Crab has a leg span of five to six feet. (eight legs, with a span of 1.8 metres. Pointy tips on the legs and they never wear shoes on their feet! ;).
I have in the distant past waded through the grass in the Chesapeake tributaries, net in hand looking for blue crabs. They got up to a foot across and were delicious soft and fried for breakfast, or hard and boiled for dinner. Today the Rappahannock is so full of fertilizer my feet vanish in knee deep water.
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No story is too small to fit 'climate change' in the headline.
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@Teller
That's the way it should be: no other threat is so large and so permanent. We are in the midst of the 6th great extinction; the last killed 95% of all life on the planet.
I doubt if any warm blooded species survive, but hope some DNA, somewhere, does.
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