It made the front page of the New York Times this morning. A new little New Yorker, a centipede, a “totally mindless killing machine” a new species, a new genus and new animal. It is now called Nannarrup hoffmani (Hoffman's dwarf centipede) and is is 10.3 millimeters long, or about four-tenths of an inch. (Centipedes generally range from 3 centimeters, or 1.2 inches, to as long as 14 inches.) Read about it: A New Kind of New Yorker, One With 82 Legs
if I ever get a dog, now I know what I'll name it... maybe Nanni for short.
Posted by: susan on July 24, 2002 11:27 AMIt's amazing that deadly dwarfish biodiversity doesn't rise up out of the primordial ooze of our city with greater frequency. See also the "predatory, saw-toothed monster fish" sold in a Chinatown fish market and now marching inexorably across Maryland [http://www.hairyeyeball.net/jotbook/archives/000419.html] ....
Posted by: iggy on July 25, 2002 05:00 AMThe best part of that article:
"If they rake all the leaves, remove all the fallen twigs and branches, new species ... The whole system will cease to function. We need to appreciate unmanicured nature."