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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSix-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/02/24/147367644/six-legged-giant-finds-secret-hideaway-hides-for-80-years?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160117They call it "Ball's Pyramid." It's what's left of an old volcano that emerged from the sea about 7 million years ago. A British naval officer named Ball was the first European to see it in 1788. It sits off Australia, in the South Pacific. It is extremely narrow, 1,844 feet high, and it sits alone.
What's more, for years this place had a secret. At 225 feet above sea level, hanging on the rock surface, there is a small, spindly little bush, and under that bush, a few years ago, two climbers, working in the dark, found something totally improbable hiding in the soil below. How it got there, we still don't know.
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Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years (Original Post)
ashling
Jan 2016
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Kaleva
(36,328 posts)1. What an awesome story! Thanks for posting it.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)2. Back from the brink of extinction
Cool story. Now they just need a home...
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)3. Great story
Thanks a lot for sharing it.
DFW
(54,436 posts)4. Amazing story!!
Thanks for that!
surrealAmerican
(11,363 posts)5. great story
It is, however, very difficult to completely eliminate rats. Has this ever been accomplished on an island this size?
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)6. Heh. "six legged giant" i thought what could that be???
then when I saw the photo I yelled OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TexasBushwhacker
(20,209 posts)11. I got a little shudder n/t
Fla Dem
(23,732 posts)7. Wow, back from extinction. Great story! nt
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)8. Fascinating.........marvelous story. n/t
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)9. Wow! Nice story.
PufPuf23
(8,813 posts)10. Thank you Awesome!! Hope reintroduction in wild works. nt