Megapiranha!

Galvasean · 29-06-2009 01:29PM #1

Just taught I'd post this before the Sci-fi Channel decide to make a B movie about it.

Anne Minnard wrote:

Eight to ten million years ago, South America's waters harbored a toothier, three-foot (one-meter) version of today's famed, flesh-eating piranhas.

Dubbed Megapiranha pananensis.

Photo by Mark Sabaj-Perez

Galvasean · 18-06-2012 10:57PM

There is a documentary about this on Nat Geo wild at midnight tonight. I watched it earlier. Save yourself two hours of fumbling about in the Amazon as they conclude in the last 5 minutes of the show that Megapiranha's teeth were good for biting.

Adam Khor · 18-06-2012 11:24PM

Galvasean wrote: »

There is a documentary about this on Nat Geo wild at midnight tonight. I watched it earlier. Save yourself two hours of fumbling about in the Amazon as they conclude in the last 5 minutes of the show that Megapiranha's teeth were good for biting.

So Nat Geo wild is going the way of History Channel :O

Galvasean · 18-06-2012 11:30PM

Some of the stuff they've been churning out has been woeful of late. 'Bull Killer: The Hunt for The Giant Anaconda' was honestly one of the worst pieces of crap masquerading as a documentary I have ever seen. The finalé featured the teams robotic probe being 'knocked out' by what 'could have been' a giant anaconda, only for one of the researchers to dive into the water, briefly grabbing a hold on what was quite clearly a section of synthetic snake and later declaring that she 'estimated' that it was at least 40 feet in length. Pathetic.

Adam Khor · 18-06-2012 11:35PM

What a shame :S I always held Nat Geo in high steem

Galvasean · 18-06-2012 11:36PM

They used to be great, but seem to have gotten increasingly 'tabloidy' in recent times in order to cash in on the ADHD generation.

Adam Khor · 18-06-2012 11:41PM

Truly, we live in a decadent world :S

Even Nat Geo magazine seems to have less new/interesting info on it than it used to

Capt'n Midnight · 21-06-2012 09:34PM

Adam Khor wrote: »

What a shame :S I always held Nat Geo in high steem

I've seen a Nat Geo branded telescope, overpriced cheapo plastic crap.

Peoples need to realise that if you dilute the brand it's very difficult to rebuild it.

Galvasean · 26-06-2012 12:28AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFhSogGnu4I

Rubecula · 26-06-2012 11:42AM

Women go to places where they can dangle their feet in pools of water to have them nibbled by fish. I think this could put them off that idea a bit. (And save some money in the process.) :pac::pac:

Adam Khor · 28-06-2012 02:35AM

Rubecula wrote: »

Women go to places where they can dangle their feet in pools of water to have them nibbled by fish. I think this could put them off that idea a bit. (And save some money in the process.) :pac::pac:

If that isn´t enough to put them off fish spas, consider the guy who went to one last year and had a swamp eel swim up his penis and into his bladder:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/10263873/slippery-eels-slithers-into-man-s-bladder/

Rubecula · 28-06-2012 12:16PM

Dear lord Adam what was he doing dangling his gentleman vegetables in a foot spa in the first place?

EDIT: Ok I read the article. it was not a foot spa after all. But ye gods. What a treatment? What next? Going into a tiger pen to lose a bit of weight by being nibbled by one?

Megapiranha!

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