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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

My non-traditional MAXICARD (with a real photo print, not postcard) showing a museum diorama about a MORTAL COMBAT between a SABER-TOOTHED CAT and a GROUND SLOTH. Let me tell you: that was not a GROUNDHOG DAY, but a "GROUNDSLOTH DAY" for the CAT, who "slothered" its prey

My non-traditional MAXICARD (with a real photo print, not postcard) showing a museum diorama about a MORTAL COMBAT between a SABER-TOOTHED CAT and a GROUND SLOTH. Let me tell you: that was NOT a GROUNDHOG DAY, but a "GROUNDSLOTH DAY" for the CAT, who "slothered" its prey.
See? The point is NOT to have NINE INCH NAILS...or CLAWS.
The point is HOW FAST can you deploy them in action?
If it takes you forever to move your claws towards the aggressor, then...you're not WINNING!

XENARTHRA...no, that's NOT a rare form of arthritis developed in border-patrolling xenophobes...
"The superorder Xenarthra is a group of placental mammals (infraclass Eutheria), extant today only in the Americas and represented by anteaters, tree sloths, and armadillos" - Wikipedia.

Reconstruction of a GROUND SLOTH based on Megalonyx jeffersonii, Iowa Museum of Natural History, University of Iowa.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Giant_ground_sloth_Iowa.JPG

"Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths, in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra. Their most recent survivors lived in the Antilles, where it has been proposed they may have survived until 1550 CE;[1] however, the youngest AMS radiocarbon date reported is 4190 BP,calibrated to c. 4700 BP for Megalocnus of Cuba.[2] They had been extinct on the mainland ofNorth and South America for 10,000 years or more.[3] The term "ground sloth" is used as a reference for all extinct sloths because of the large size of the earliest forms discovered, as opposed to the extant "tree sloths." However, this is a historical convention and does not imply that all extinct sloths were strictly terrestrial in nature."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_sloth
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3 comments:

  1. Roger Owen GreenDecember 28, 2011 at 9:16 PM

    Ah, pulling out the ground sloths, eh? Whatever X one can find!

    ROG, ABC Wednesday team

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  2. Chronicles of IllusionsDecember 30, 2011 at 2:22 PM

    Loved it...
    http://jobryantnz.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/x-is-for-xanthippe/

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  3. AnonymousDecember 31, 2011 at 1:01 PM

    intriguing!

    ornamented joshua

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