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senexa
July 5th, 2004, 9:03 AM
Thought some of you might enjoy this article from the Telegraph newspaper. You have to register to read it, but the registration is free.

Strange beasties of ancient Scotland
(Filed: 30/06/2004)

A village in Aberdeenshire is providing an exquisitely preserved slice of life in a tropical paradise lost, reports Roger Highfield

Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, 410 million years ago: you are standing in a tropical paradise south of the equator that is crawling with strange life forms and drenched from time to time with boiling mineral water from hot springs.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk

admiral_ju00
July 8th, 2004, 7:00 AM
Thanks for the link.

Verso Ophix
August 18th, 2004, 3:37 PM
I will have to read this soon, but im sorta busy. (I would'nt have posted, but I wanted to test my account and see how everything looks. Thanks for posting this Senexa. :)