Re: Did Dung Beetles Kill The Mushroom?

Anton Sherwood (dasher@netcom.com)
Sat, 26 Jul 1997 20:46:42 -0700

> >Thats interesting, the only thing that can be said is maybe dung beetles
> >werent around 100,000 years ago. [...]

Anders answers
: I certainly don't know enough, but I think the beetles were around
: long before that. [...]
: So, I think the dung beetles have an alibi.

"alibi" means elsewhere (as in "Fungos necavisse non possum: alibi eram").
The dung beetles, having been there all along, have the opposite of an alibi.

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