Ancient Species of Eyeless Crustacean Found in Ocean Tunnel


	Ancient Species of Eyeless Crustacean Found in Ocean Tunnel

artdawgs

10-1-2009 5:46 AM

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10-1-2009 1:39 PM

lollipop10

prehensile limbs on their heads? yikes.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/048a47c6-82e5-42fe-ad2b-246a7c88d39f/BD52298D-7AD2-48BE-A8FB-89052DABD441/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2009/08/" href="http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2009/08/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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