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@fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish • 4 months ago

Fossils on Fossils

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@fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish • 4 months ago
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  • @JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
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    19•3 months ago

    Birds are considered to be dinosaurs. Birds exist now. We are finding dinosaur fossils now.

    • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      7•3 months ago

      That’s what the XKCD that was posted says. Mostly.

  • Q The Misanthrope
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    54•4 months ago

    This meme made me gasp loud enough that my girlfriend was worried something was wrong.

    Then I had to explain that I’m 41 years old and was just shocked by a dinosaur fact.

    • @fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
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      16•4 months ago

      Also, my favourite fact is we know almost nothing about dinosaurs from jungles and mountains. Most of our knowledge comes from wetland and oceanic creatures because of the way fossils are formed.

    • @fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
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      4 months ago

      To be fair, things can fossilise very quickly given ideal conditions. Still dinosaurs reigned for a lot more time than mammals and frankly nature is still feeling the loss in certain ways.

      https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/

      • NegativeNull
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        16•4 months ago

        Another fun fact (dino facts are the best facts): There are more “dinosaur” species alive today than there are mammal species.
        11,000 bird species alive today (approx)
        6,000 mammal species alive today (approx)

    • @toynbee@lemmy.world
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      10•4 months ago

      Forty-one?! You’re practically a fossil!

  • Mr Fish
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    99•4 months ago

    It is more chronologically accurate to show a t-rex being hit by a car than it is to show a t-rex eating a stegosaurus

    • @irish_link@lemmy.world
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      20•4 months ago

      This is the comparison I was looking for. It’s great to explain that media shows them together but untrue, it is a totally different idea to explain the staggering time difference between the two.

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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      I said I’m sorry. But if you’re going to let your T-Rex out at night you should at least put a reflective collar on it.

      • @Frozengyro@lemmy.world
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        20•4 months ago

        Hi, I was just calling because I live down the street from you, and your daughter come to my house today and she kick my t-rex.

        Your daughter come to my house today, And she come on my property and then she kick my t-rex. And now my t-rex needs operation.

        • SkaveRat
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          28•4 months ago

          How cruel.

          My T-Rex ist mostly armless

          • @Frozengyro@lemmy.world
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            11•4 months ago

            That would be a knee slapper if I could reach.

        • @agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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          3•4 months ago

          We don’t know you

      • @toynbee@lemmy.world
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        3•4 months ago

        The only interaction I’ve seen between a T-Rex and a collar is that one scene from The Lost World. Based on what I saw there, I have to assume that collars wouldn’t really work for them.

    • @ziggurat@lemmy.world
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      5•3 months ago

      You made me scroll up to the picture again, looking for a T-Rex or a car

    • @Zzyzx@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      deleted by creator

  • @WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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    112•4 months ago

    There are fossilized humans. Fossilization really doesn’t take that much time, geologically speaking; it just requires very specific conditions.

    • @Copythis@lemmy.world
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      17•4 months ago

      About how much time are we talkin here?

      • @Geobloke@lemm.ee
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        23•4 months ago

        Where are the bodies?

        • @meep_launcher@lemm.ee
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          10•4 months ago

          Where’s Rachel!?

          • @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
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            4•3 months ago

            Where are the other drugs going?

            • @sheogorath@lemmy.world
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              4•3 months ago

              I don’t know, swear to God

              • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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                For some reason, I don’t entirely believe you. Might be the whole God of Madness thing. You turning back into Jyggalag anytime soon? I’d like to know when to short the shit out of the entire market.

      • @vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        5•3 months ago

        I know there’s some animal fossils in New Zealand that date back to its colonization by the ancestors of the Maori, so about the 1400s. Though I don’t know if they are partially or fully fossilized.

  • @Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    11•4 months ago

    Well, there are human fossiles aswell and we have been here for a pretty short time.

    • @zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com
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      3•4 months ago

      Speed running fucking it up too

  • @Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world
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    9•4 months ago

    Well, there are plenty of hominid fossils and we humans are plentiful.

  • @borokov@lemmy.world
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    13•3 months ago

    Also, water you are drinking has probably been peed by dinosaure. Several time. But probably not peed by a human.

    • @greenhorn@lemm.ee
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      7•3 months ago

      Second relevant xkcd of the comments https://what-if.xkcd.com/74/

    • Prehensile_cloaca
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      6•3 months ago

      guzzles water

      • @FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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        3•3 months ago

  • @nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de
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    23•3 months ago

    https://xkcd.com/1211/

    • @Akasazh@lemmy.world
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      10•3 months ago

      There’s always a relevant xkcd

    • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      2•3 months ago

      The popup text on that one is quite funny.

      • @ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world
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        3•3 months ago

        Any idea how to access the pop-up text on a phone?

        • @YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world
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          It says:

          Sure, T. rex is closer in height to Stegosaurus than a sparrow. But that doesn’t tell you much; ‘Dinosaur Comics’ author Ryan North is closer in height to certain dinosaurs than to the average human.

          😂

          As a tall person I feel cooler now

        • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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          3•3 months ago

          On my android, I just long press on the image, and it appears at the top of the popup menu

  • @Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    2•4 months ago

    [off topic]

    The Gryphon’s Skull is a fun read. Two Greek traders, circa 300 BC, discover a dinosaur fossil…

    https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-gryphon-s-skull-harry-turtledove/8156325?ean=9781612421421&next=t

    • @flora_explora@beehaw.org
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      2•3 months ago

      If you like fun but also well-researched stories about people living in pre-modern times, you might also enjoy the weird medieval guys podcast :) They actually did an episode on fossils recently. Another funny story they mention is the one of Johann Beringer’s “Lying Stones”.

  • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    OK, now I’m imagining dinosaur archaeologists (monocles and brushes, not bullwhips and quips).

  • Lovable Sidekick
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    3•3 months ago

    “Hey, isn’t that Dave’s skull?”

    “Can’t be, I just saw him this morning. Sure looks like him though. Weird.”

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