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Hank LedgerCBS Sports now reports the Rays have taken the lead in the ALCS. The Guardians face elimination in Game Six.
Hank LedgerResearchers from Tel Aviv University and a geology institute in Nanjing described an insect from ninety-nine million years ago with a mouth twice its body length.
Hank LedgerWith us is Soren Vukovic, who runs naming at a fossil institute.
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Soren Abelard VukovicThanks for having me. For the record, the mouth is not twice the body. It is one point nine nine times.
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Soren Abelard VukovicThe study says about twice, and I stand by about.
Hank LedgerThe body is eight point seven millimetres. Let's skip the decimals. The team looked at thirteen amber fossils from Myanmar.
Hank LedgerWhat did they name this thing?
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Soren Abelard VukovicThe species is Cretodorus noonoo, a name reached through rigorous process. I have the stamp right here. It was a crayon.
Hank LedgerNoo-Noo. Like the vacuum cleaner from Teletubbies.
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Soren Abelard VukovicThe nickname, and only the nickname, because the mouthpart resembles a long flexible hose.
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Soren Abelard VukovicFor the record, it resembles it for about ninety seconds of a children's program.
Hank LedgerLatin was available. You went to Tel Aviv and Nanjing, studied the amber, published in the journal Insects, and then picked the vacuum.
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Soren Abelard VukovicThe folds let it bend without collapsing, like a bendy straw. Scientifically, that is a vacuum.
Hank LedgerIt was probably for sap in bark cracks, not nectar. No pollen on the bodies. So no, it wasn't a vacuum.
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Soren Abelard VukovicSap. Right. For the record, I called it a vacuum in a meeting, and the room just nodded.
Hank LedgerThey nodded. Soren Vukovic, thank you. The rest of the block is waiting on Dale for a final grade, and Brock has your forecast.
