Discover with Dr. Cool

Welcome to the Tumblr of Discover with Dr. Cool: geeking out about dinosaurs, sharks, fossils, crystals and meteorites and more!

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Just a few days left to enter our #4DigKits giveaway! Get your entries in while you can.Enter here: http://gvwy.io/z519fd

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Here an update on our office-tumbling-project :) The rocks already look different after the first round of tumbling. The edges became smoother.

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Clock is ticking down... Just a couple of hours left in our ‪#‎DinoFigures‬ Giveaway! :) You've got until midnight, so get those entries in while you can: http://goo.gl/BTtoVe

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Exciting!!! We got one of our Pro Tumbler in the office and are now polishing rocks :) Look here, that's Day 1, the rocks before we put them in. Check back to see the process during the next weeks.

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Look, our new office! Full of toys :)

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Something a little different again! Taking inspiration from 80s//90s pattern colours, I have gone for the famous Mosasaur scene with the Great White Shark!

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"Why do the eyes of some animals, including goats, have horizontal-shaped pupils, while others, such as rattlesnakes and domestic cats, have vertical slits?"

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Giant stick insect! Find a smaller version in our Camouflage Kit ;) http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150720-giant-animals-youve-never-seen

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I wish we could have pet dinosaurs, I bet they’d be smart and like birds or something. Big fluffy ones you could feed with snake mice and stuff. Jurassic Park could’ve been huge if they bred big cute fluffy dinosaurs. You could take them on walks! Teach them things! They’d probably sound like slowed-down birds! Adorable!!

Realistically they probably would hate you and rip you apart but… imagine

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Quartz and Amethyst

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This is one of the oldest members of the triceratops family we’ve ever found.

New horned dino sported gnarly headgear with a curly frill: http://bit.ly/1NY8fEx

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*This close* to starting a petition to ensure they do actually name it Opistoteuthis adorabilis :D

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Star Rose Quartz

When cut cabochon, star rose quartz reflected or transmitted light in a star-like pattern. 

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Coelophysis - Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)

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Seriously if you like dinosaurs, check out this blog post covering the prep process of an unbelievable specimen of a Gorgosaurus at the Royal Tyrell Museum.

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The extinct gecko Yantarogekko balticus in 54 million year old baltic amber.  While most people think of insects preserved in amber in very rare instances larger animals including small reptiles have been preserved.

Be sure to follow the Fossil Porn Tumblr Blog for more amazing fossil photos and links.