Mr-glomeroporphyritic - Expect Nothing

YOURE WELCOME!! THANKS FOR READING ABOUT THE ROCKS I THINK THEYRE REALLY GREAT

i wish i had a geologist friend who could sit me down and tell me everything about these rocks and what kind of rock it is and how they were formed and everything about them:(

theyre just normal rocks but i want to KNOW about them.

You have GOT to be kidding me. They will just name volcanoes anything.

#in my mineralogy class we had a slideshow presentation about which rocks were dangerous to put in your mouth #there were test questions based on this

hey

what do you think about geology

rocks taste good

NASA Data Sonification: Black Hole Remix

In this sonification of Perseus. the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted outward from the center. (source)

It's not even clear here🥲🥲😭

Daily affirmations for Paleontologists and people of similar professions: You CAN create a video tapping rocks/artifacts whispering "paleontology/(your field of study here)" I believe in you

wait are chickens actually decended from t-rexes or is it just a comedic pairing

Chickens and T. rex share a recent common ancestor, more recent than T. rex shares with Stegosaurus or Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus

Chickens did not descend from T. rex, because T. rex is a very specialized and derived dinosaur

However, they - and all other birds, because all birds are in a single group - descended from small raptorial dinosaurs like Velociraptor. And, the common ancestor of Velociraptor and all birds (including chickens) could fly

And since birds descend from the same common ancestor as all other dinosaurs, they're dinosaurs.

I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.

If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.

If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we’d never come up with those ears.

If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn’t know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.

We wouldn’t know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.

My point here is that we don’t know anything about dinosaurs. If we saw one we would not recognize it. As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they’d been all around us the whole time.

I have another paleontology joke for y’all!

Why did Archaeopteryx catch the worm?

Because it was an early bird!

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.