#fossilisation

[briery]

Opal in petrified wood, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Gem and Mineral Hall Collection. By Stan Celestian on Flickr. (Hi-Res)

[crestedpalls]

THESE TWO ARE GONNA BE THE END OF ME BAHAHAHAHHA

[slyzia]

Chillin’ on the swing

These two are the very two that got me into Pokémon in the first place, so I’m honouring them by drawing this. THANK YOU SUN AND HAU! I love them so so much. I dearly hold onto them.

Anyways lovelies I’ll see you next time, I’m planning to start posting for frequently soon so stay tuned! Stay warm out there, don’t end up bed ridden like me.

[gaymingvideos]

you guys gave me sm shit for calling dan enby years ago and now here y'all are reblogging those old posts agreeing with them now

[neovenatorgirlteeth]

FEBUZOIC DAY 4

Queensland, Australia - Ypresian stage, 55Ma before present

300,000 years ago, the planet experienced a short, geologically speaking, spike in temperatures that caused somewhere between 5-8C of warming. This spike marked the transition from the Palaeocene epoch to the Eocene, and although the event is over, the already hot world of the Cenozoic is slowly getting hotter. Dawn breaks on a greenhouse planet.

As the light touches the shores of lake Murgon, the last of the bats retreat into the shadows, and the crocodiles, giant snakes and odd wading birds that line the shore are revealed. The plethora of water-loving insects begins to hum in the suns rays, but their noise in punctured by a new sound; birdsong. A small, relatively unassuming looking bird hops along the rocks of the shoreline, stopping occasionally to produce short bursts of complex vocalisation. He is a one of the first passerines, a group that in the modern day contains around half of all bird species, from crows to blackbirds to the New Zealand rock wren.

Birds, the only dinosaurs to have survived the extinction event 11 million years ago, have exploded in diversity and are now fulfilling a huge number of roles in the ecosystem. There are now a huge amount of birds calling to eachother in the dawn, and the songs of this little bird pick it out from the crowd of not just other bird species, but other birds of the same species. As time passes, the evolutionary process will select for more and more intricate songs until they arrive in the Holocene in their beautiful modern form.

[spicyicymeloncat]

I DREW ALL THE GREEN BOYS!!!

These boys! They’re in order of game release (hopefully) and it’s my initial take on every link and how they compare to one another. I say initial bc I wanna make more interesting designs for them later on (like give spirit tracks link uniform that looks like a royal guard outfit yknow). Oh yeah btw these are the 28 green men from the poll a while back.

There will probably be more Loz art so uhh yeah

[cruelsister-moved2]

tbh one of my biggest learning curves w folk culture was learning that the desire for stuff to be super old is kind of dangerous & directly enables a lot of the romantic-nationalist and outright fascist myths & tropes to continue. stuff in oral culture just often doesn't 'survive' or isn't recorded very well, but the very concept of 'survivals' being important has a deep&dark relationship with colonialism. at a certain point you have to ask yourself if something being older actually is inherently better or if you're just denying autonomy to oral culture. w the xmas tree example, is it really cooler if xmas trees are some disembodied 'survival' of the Collective Wellspring of the Ancient German Volk Stock or is it not kind of fascinating that central european peasants in the late medieval/early modern period seem to have just started doing that all of a sudden like it was the new interior design trend? idk like i love weird fragmentary maybe-ancient ballads as much as the next person but i would never let that make me turn a blind eye to the beautiful richness of more recent oral culture that gives us such heartbreaking personal insights into the life of some individual victorian woman in favour of imagining whatever i want about a faceless mass. and when you actually study ballads in context you see how much different individuals repurpose them and how much the idea that some perfect Original is being lost each time they do is so reactionary and ignorant & you get real w yourself about the fact that the real allure of that fragment is its mystery when other similar songs better 'preserved' or documented actually turn out to be less than 250 years old suddenly don't seem so esoteric

anyway look at this

[radix-pedis-diaboli]

I've been writing the new chapter of Memento Mori, which now sits comfortably at 10k words, and while i think it had great potential, I can't say I'm completely satisfied with how the entire story has turned out. I think it has a very weak structure and that Holmes and Watson's relationship could have been developed further by expanding the investigation side of things a bit more. I've been thinking about going back over it once i'm done with it for good to polish it up and improve those weak points as best as i can.

[thesilicontribesman]

Fossilised Tree Trunk Cavity and Fissures, 'The Hitching Stone' Glacial Erratic and Landscape Feature, Cowling, West Yorkshire.

The location of the cavity can be seen in the second image where rainwater has created a lighter tone in the bottom right of the picture.

[briery]

Epigenised (Opal-CT, Lussatite) Helix Ramondi snail fossil, from Dallet, Puy-De-Dôme, France.

[blueiscoool]

Iridescent Ammonite Canada

From the Upper Cretaceous, Bearpaw formation (75-72 million years ago), the 161⁄4-inch specimen of Placenticeras meeki displaying a dazzling iridescence of reds and oranges, greens and rich blues.

[zahri-melitor]

Okay started Superboy.

I assume most people starting this comic in the year 2023 don’t get the context of this joke, but as someone whose mother was a fan and who DID read the series in her teens before Shelters of Stone came out (with parental approval even!):

“Richard Leakey or Jean Auel” is HILARIOUS.

I mean your lipstick is wrong for EITHER, but given this is a strip club and you’re offering Jean Auel as an option, obviously the answer is Auel. Compared to Leakey! Cmon Knockout how is this even a question.

(Though if I went back and reread the books, you never know, Ayla MIGHT have invented lipstick in a quiet moment there - after all she invented everything else…)

[hiddenfolk]

"My rock people are hopelessly depressed!" Oh yeah well my rock people can do a kickflip. How about that

[lasagras]

Dentist: It appears that you have TMJ://

Me, an archaeology student: omg, like Lucy??

[thethingything]

have you ever thought about how fucking weird it is that we call baby trees "saplings"? like sap is basically tree blood. imagine if we called baby humans "bloodlings"

[muppetbyers]

its just. its just that the rest of el's character is so interesting that her relationship with mike is literally like walking out of a 5 star restaurant just to be fed a hot dog from the gutter.