I think I just read the coolest science news of the year. In random samples in this week's Science they describe the discovery of killer storks on the island of Flores in Indonesia. Flores is the island on which the "hobbit" was found--three foot tall dwarf hominids, possibly related to Homo erectus, that went extinct just 13,000 years ago. Now they have discovered 6 foot tall carnivorous storks on the same island. We don't know if the storks ate the humans.
What could be more cool than giant flesh eating storks? Once you have that discovery on your resume, how can you top it? The only thing I can think of comparable is a town being terrorized by giant killer bunny rabbits in the 1972 movie Night of the Lepus. (I remember seeing that movie on the CBS late movie as a kid. The CBS late movie was great--every night, in what is now the David Letterman time slot, they would show low budget movies, typical drive-in fair. I saw more great cheesy movies that way than any time since).
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