Toothy 3-foot Piranha Fossil Found


	Toothy 3-foot Piranha Fossil Found

ratilfar

6-26-2009 6:18 PM

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ratilfar says:

Don't go into prehistoric waters!

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6-26-2009 6:59 PM

tweezer

AAAAHJHHH Very scary I hate bugs and spiders love to swim glad its prehistoric

6-26-2009 7:01 PM

ratilfar

That we know off.

6-26-2009 9:20 PM

tanyamm

Have you seen some of the things they're pulling out of the water still? Prehistoric, OMG I thought this thing died a million years ago but here it is swimming around alive and I wonder how many others there are down there and what the hell did they eat because look at the size of the teeth in that huge mouth and By Jesus you'll never find me swimming in an ocean or river or anything filled with water that I can't see the bottom.

6-26-2009 10:01 PM

ratilfar

After swimming with sharks (one, unintentionally, and it scared the crap out me) a three foot piranha doesn't scare me none. Now a 9 foot sea scorpion....

6-27-2009 8:58 AM

valann 47

bloomin 'eck there's movement in my pond...

6-27-2009 11:08 AM

tanyamm

Get out of the water..... NOW!

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