AND ON A LIGHTER NOTE...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 09:14PM It's all been a hit heavy today so here's a lighter read, in fact it's a really light read. I bring you the winner of the 2008 Darwin Award - and it's one for the clergy! Respect to the balloon priest!




Reader Comments (4)
Ah, David, you should have advised readers to look all the way down the list of nominees as well. There are some classics! :-)
Yes - classics!
Brings a new meaning to the phrase "He's ballooned since I last saw him "
The great man himself would have been tickled pink by this:
"A spectacular pink type of Galapagos iguana promises to rewrite the family's evolutionary history in the islands. Rosada was missed by Charles Darwin during his 1835 visit, but appears to indicate the earliest known divergence of land animals in the archipelago. Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers say rosada split from other land iguanas about 5.7 million years ago."