Comments on: Triassic Era Bugs Discovered http://revmodo.com/2012/08/28/triassic-era-bugs-discovered/ Covering the clean energy industry Sun, 04 Nov 2012 07:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Peter Nauhttp://revmodo.com/2012/08/28/triassic-era-bugs-discovered/#comment-920 Peter Nau Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:58:00 +0000 http://revmodo.com/?p=7862#comment-920 "They’re 100 million years older than the oldest anthropods previously collected." You probably mean "arthropod": "An arthropod is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and jointed appendages" -- http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Arthropod"Anthropoid is a name applied to something that is approximately man shaped. So a chimp is anthropoid, and there were various extinct kangaroo species that are described as anthropoid. Anthropoid is also applied to non-living things such as machines or artworks. Just to keep it confusing there is also a specific biological term "Anthropoid" with a capital 'A' which refers to the 'higher' primates. It is essentially a category of all primates excluding lemurs." -- http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006021413656 “They’re 100 million years older than the oldest anthropods previously collected.”
You probably mean “arthropod”:
“An arthropod is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and jointed appendages” — http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Arthropod

“Anthropoid is a name applied to something that is approximately man shaped. So a chimp is anthropoid,
and there were various extinct kangaroo species that are described as
anthropoid. Anthropoid is also applied to non-living things such as
machines or artworks. Just to keep it confusing there is also a specific
biological term “Anthropoid” with a capital ‘A’ which refers to the
‘higher’ primates. It is essentially a category of all primates
excluding lemurs.” — http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006021413656

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