Happy Fossil Friday! Even Though This Animal Looks Like A Big Lizard, It Is One Of The Early Relatives

one of my top 10 favorite childhood memories was going to the garden store with my parents as a kid where they had one of these bad boys

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A Highland Coo and her calf wandering down an empty road, Argyll and the Isles, Scotland. Credit: Andy Maclachlan.

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Did you know many regular sidewalks can have body or trace fossils on them? Here I show you a sidewalk in southern Brazil (Dois Irmãos-RS) with marine invertebrate displacement trace fossils. These rocks are from the Late Carboniferous Rio do Sul Formation (Paraná Basin). Your strolls in town will never be the same now!

The end-cretaceous extinction is actually very simple. The asteroid caused all the dinosaurs to bounce up into the air like a trampoline, and only birds, who could fly, could survive falling from such a height

Not to be dramatic but seeing/coming into contact with ancient stuff is an overwhelming experience. I can’t look at a damn mummy without imaginging every facet of who they may have been in life. I was in a cave once to see a stone full of grooves where people had sharpened stone weapons thousands of years ago and I was told I could touch the grooves and my spirit left my body on contact. I fell through time and space. What the fuck

this video is like every facet of what it is to be a cat, all at once

Happy Earth Day! Let’s take good care of this beautiful planet we call home, today and everyday 🌿

Faramir: How tall are you?

Pippin: Height is a social construct.

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Shocked quartz is not actually rainbow, those images are microscopic views of single shocked quartz particles! On a non-microscopic level, this is what it looks like.

A little bit mundane compared to those funky rainbow microscope shots if you’d ask me.