Re: North Sea find

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:31:23 +0200 Tommy Tyrberg
<tommy.tyrberg@norrkoping.mail.telia.com> writes:
> Remarkable but not unique, in 1937 a Pliocene grebe was found at a 
> depth of 
> 645 m in a California oil well:


Oil companies immediately released a statement that said, "This clearly
shows that shore birds have a natural affinity for crude oil."  ;-)  The
Exxon-Valdez oil spill actually FED those Alaskan birds.

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