I don't want to be continually slagging off at scientists ... but ... thinking about that article, Thucydides, a BC compulsive chronicler of events, even worse than us, had already recorded, in pain-staking detail, a co-relation between animals and earthquakes. The same phenomenon was also noted in China since ancient times.

But it took scientists another 2500 years to admit it wasn't some crackpot concept after all.