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Putting forward what you didn’t have

lookingthroughthewater

The face of a hero

The year is 1BCE

Mary is getting in vitro fertilization

digitaldiscipline

A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.

hey, @bunjywunjy - this might be your jam (and any other dinosaur enthusiasts, it’s a heck of a read)

bunjywunjy

man that’s not just a heck of a read it’s fuckin GROUNDBREAKING is what it is!

this dude actually found a large fossil deposit that was created not just close to, but actually DURING THE K-PG EXTINCTION EVENT.

IT’S LITERALLY A WINDOW BACK IN TIME TO THE CHICXULUB IMPACT, AND TURNS OUT IT WAS WORSE THAN ANYTHING WE COULD POSSIBLY HAVE IMAGINED

it’s a geologic snapshot of the apocalypse.

tratserenoyreve

reading the full article is certainly a trip, and to summarize for those who are intimidated by longer reads:

- chicxulub is the given name for the meteor that struck/initiated the event

- the paleontologist within is described as making groundbreaking discoveries of multiple species every day, but many of his peers discount him because they’re grouchy old dudes he accidentally had a fragment of a turtle bone involved in a larger reconstruction of a fossil this one time and they won’t let him live it down.

- the extinction event was so fast and so destructive, this guy describes this particular dig-site as being so densely layered with dead and dying creatures, there is a lot of organic tissues that have been preserved, and he is able to even discern that many of the marine and freshwater fish may have still been alive as they were buried due to molten glass being found in their gills, implying they were still attempting to breathe.

- they looked into exactly when and how this could have happened, having freshwater and marine animals stacked on top of mammals and larger dinosaurs (including an amazing deinonychus forearm discovery he was able to match to feather fossils he was finding atop the pile), and rather it being the initial tsunami, they are fairly sure that it was caused by a seiche of catastrophic proportions, which would have been set off within the first hour of the event. denser and larger creatures sunk to the bottom, leaving lighter debris like leaves, small fish, feathers, and molten glass on the surface.

summary: terrifying!

lastoneout

This is fucking incredible

kerolunaticat

Holy SHIT!

peannlui

Here’s a famous book snippet describing how feasible that we could find dinosaur fossils on the moon.

sleepingpowder

@paleogay

tuulikki

Adding this, since I didn’t know the word and pronunciation

mckitterick

so, yeah, the Caribbean Sea seiched up outta its bed and walloped the land with a deluge of sea creatures right after the impact apocalypse

naamahdarling

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early

astronaut: moon’s got dinosaurs

nasa employee: what?

astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon’s got dinosaurs.

luxury-dream-homes

30-minute-memes

Keep the legacy going!

spite

Me: dangling hand off bed Demon: *grabs it* Me: what are we

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

the truest ADHD ally of our time was my professor who during a field exam handed me a newt and told me to hold it and I was like “what do you want me to do with this” thinking it was for the test and he shrugged and said “it’s just to keep ya busy”

lemoneychicken

one time in math class the kid next to me basically said that ppl with adhd wouldnt be able to pass the class because theyre idiots. i didnt want to get involved so i just kinda shrunk into my seat.

my teacher immidiately went to the students desk, looked him dead in the eyes and said “i have adhd.”

he then proceeded to very shortly lecture about how people with adhd are not idiots, and students with it will still be able to succeed in his class.

mllemusketeer

Mentors with ADHD are the best, they get how your brain works and usually the two of you get up to the same type of shit so they’re great at showing you how to dig yourself out of it too