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The thought that dinosaurs and other prehistoric life forms were at one point truly alive and roaming the earth and just behaving no different from any other living thing today just makes me so happy.
I don't even know if happy is the right word, I just couldn't possibly describe the type of amazement I get from thinking about it, I can't put words to it.
Like, these were real living creatures, they aren't from fantasy or mythology.
They breathed and ate and slept and did all sorts of normal animal things, because they were normal! Not some bloodthirsty monsters, they just did what they had to to survive, just like modern day animals.
Looking at the fossils I have in my collection and really thinking about it just amazes me. My little fish, at one point, was swimming around in the water with all the other fish, except this was millions of years ago. It's a little piece of the past, frozen in time, letting people today have even just the smallest glimpse of things that happened so long ago that we'd otherwise have no idea about.
It just, amazes me that at one point, all these creatures that, by comparison to today's life, are so strange or creepy or alien or whatever were once just the norm. It wouldn't be out of the ordinary to see a huge beast of a reptile looming ominously in a forest, or a flying creature far more deadly looking than today's birds of prey soaring through the air, or just, whatever the hell was going on in the Cambrian period, and it was all normal.
I know I'm just repeating myself a lot but wow I just get all sorts of feelings when I think about this stuff
Fuck man the past is so cool
Oh how I desperately want to time travel not to change the past, but to just see the dinosaurs and watch the earth change and evolve over billions of years
was looking through my old rock collection and found something interesting
a complete and intact clam fossil that i had found in my backyard. i live in a completely landlocked state.
Stromatolite Fossil
When I first saw this stone, I was excited. I was even more excited when I found out what it was. A record of the first life forms on Earth. Information from billions of years ago. How could I not be excited? I would love to know all the information hidden inside this beautiful fossil.
Stromatolite Fossil
Hi everyone I’m sorry ik it’s been months since I said I’d start on my next series but I’ve been finding it hard to get motivation to to it and I need a new art program
Thinking the format will be similar to that of patfw i love the mix of visual storytelling and a more novel format sm and I wanna experiment and put my utmost best into this next project before release!!!
Anyways, I made my Fossilhead dude a real reference!!! :DDD Super happy with how it came out even though ibis no longer seems to support pressure sensitivity which sucks
If anyone knows whether premium still has it or not please lmk before I purchase it! Thanks!!! :3
I went fossil hunting down at the Warren (in Folkestone, Kent, UK) on Thursday last week. These are some of my favourite finds from the trip (I washed them up at home).
Fossil hunting is great fun. If you live in the UK, and fancy giving it a shot, then there are some really handy websites that you should check out. https://ukfossils.co.uk/ and http://www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/fossil-locations-of-great-britain/
If you don't live in the UK but still want to give it a go then I would recommend looking for local fossil hunting clubs, societies and websites. Failing that you should try to look for areas where sedimentary rocks are being eroded. For instance, cliffs by the sea, rivers, old quarries, etc.
Just make sure you don't trespass or go anywhere too dangerous. For instance, if you are fossil hunting under cliffs at the beach, don't get to close to the cliffs (falling debris and cliffs collapsing) and plan around the tides (you don't want to get cut off).
Meet “the sheep of the Mesozoic,” Protoceratops andrewsi. This herbivore was a very common animal and is remarkably well-represented in the fossil record.
MASSIVE Arrowhead Indian Relics And Fossil Haul (June 15th 2022)
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Please save the The St. George Dinosaur Site
Bad news for everyone who loves science. The St. George Dinosaur Site risks being destroyed, and needs help to be saved.
Please, donate or at least try to help it somehow.
BIG NEWS: Apex is now on view at the Museum! Thought to be the largest and one of the most complete Stegosaurus specimens ever found, this 150-million-year-old fossil can now be seen in the Museum’s Griffin Exploration Atrium.
Apex will be studied as part of a new research initiative by scientists in the Museum’s Division of Paleontology focused on Stegosaurus biology, including the unique ornithischian dinosaur’s growth and life history. This work will require taking a small sample from a thigh bone of the specimen, which will become part of the Museum’s permanent scientific collection. All resulting 3D digital models, including the internal structures of its skull from new CT scans taken at the Museum, will be made available as a scientific resource for the wider community of researchers.
Photo: Alvaro Keding & Daniel Kim/ © AMNH
Update : I think it might be marble from the area, i know a lot of train stations in France like to use local rock to look more like its background.
I couldn't find online which rock it is, but i found the architect and his firm's website so that's cool. It's just going to be one of those things where in a few years i'll take one glance at those pictures and immediatly identify it like " what a dumbass i was those years ago"
But i really wanted to find info online of it's age and origin but :(
Maybe it's the pill for motionsickness (which makes me sleepy and completely high), maybe it's the fact i've had a fever for 3 days or maybe it's because i slept 5h in the last few days but oh boy the floor at my train station is freaking cool i need to know more
It looks like it's loads of bivalves but i'm really bad at identifying even when i'm not tripping
I noticed my nephew liked to pretend he was excavating fossils (crayons and coins) from my play-sand so I baked some clay bones for him to discover hee hee. It was surprisingly fun to do but I apologize to paleontologists everywhere for the... freedoms I took hehe. Also, I may or may not bury a unicorn fossil in our backyard. >_>
Edit: Uh-oh. I think he liked it too much. He actually thinks that, somehow, a real fossil made it into my room. hehe.
Christmas present for my cousin, Sue rises from the grave!
Today’s skele is: Sue the T-Rex Fossil!
“At more than 40 feet long and 13 feet tall at the hip, SUE is physically the largest Tyrannosaurus rex specimen discovered, out of more than 30 T. rex skeletons that have been found. SUE is also the most complete—around 90 percent.”-The Field Museum
“It must be nice!! To make strides in your field!!”
A self indulgent stimboard of Fossil from Objectified!
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