Mr-glomeroporphyritic - Expect Nothing

When I say "Birds are Dinosaurs" and you say "No you know what I mean, when we say dinosaurs we mean Something Else" I think like... you don't know what I mean.

There's sort of a constructed category of dinosaurs as these scaly, powerful, outdated animals, and birds as these delicate modern animals, and I want you to understand that these ideas are based on outdated science and human biases. That birds can and have grown huge and predatory, that dinosaurs were a hugely diverse group that had grazers and small arboreal animals and fast intelligent ones.

Birds are a category of dinosaur, the only one we have left around. Appreciate them, demythologize dinosaurs, and destroy the boxes you put nature into.

Do you love the Eras of the Earth?

Which One?

Trying to reorganize my rock collection on my shelf by how much I want the specific rocks to be displayed. The problem is that I'm a geology major and I love all of them

i love grocery shopping!!! The best parts are when my hands go numb and my heart and lungs get to play jump rope!!!!

Geological horror. You find a geode and crack it open and the crystal lining its walls is human blood that can't be genetically matched to anyone. You find a human skeleton but every one of the bones is made from rock, a rock that you know can't be whittled into those shapes. You find layers of clay and loam that sport ancient fossils at the top and the still-rotting corpses of modern animals at the bottom.

Indigenous knowledge of palaeontology in Africa

One of my current professors was at the conference where plate tectonics was officially accepted as a real thing and witnessed two geologists almost get into a fist fight about it

Absolutely insane that plate tectonics was only really figured out in the 1960s. How the fuck did we make nukes and get to space and discover dna before we figured out how the fucking ground works

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

*Elmer Fudd voice* Be vewwy, vewwy, quiet, I'm hunting geowogists