“Bleedin’ Demised” for 55 million years


	“Bleedin’ Demised” for 55 million years

CrazyRedHead

5-16-2008 6:54 AM

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Monty Python’s parrot may have been “bleedin’ demised” when that sketch was
performed in 1969, but an unlikely discovery suggests that it was once alive
and well.
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The “Norwegian blue” that Michael Palin claimed was not dead, but simply
“shagged out following a prolonged squawk”, may not have been such a
ridiculous invention as the comedians intended.
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David Waterhouse, a palaeontologist from Norfolk, believes that he has
identified the oldest known parrot fossil and, at the same time, proved that
the birds once lived considerably farther north than was previously thought.
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Although the bird has been officially named Mopsitta tanta, Dr Waterhouse has
nicknamed it the Danish blue, a tribute to its fictional Norwegian
counterpart in the Python routine, which has been voted Britain’s best-loved
alternative comedy sketch.
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shuffled off its mortal coil around 55 million years ago, but the fjords of
Norway were formed during the last Ice Age and are less than a million years
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