Knowing the conditions would have had to be quite perfect for preservation, I'm always wondering how many amazing creatures we will never be able to discover
I'll be honest, if I saw that while hiking I'd say, "Wow! That rock looks a lot like a dinosaur footprint!" And not actually believe it was for a second. Makes me wonder.
When I was stationed in Oregon, I found a huge brass thing on the beach once that was so large I couldn’t unbury it and thought, hey, wouldn’t it be cool if this was a bell from a shipwreck?
Half a year later a storm washed away the beach and uncovered a shipwreck.
We used to do the opposite when I was a kid. My dad's friend worked at a history museum, in the Native American dept. We would bring just about any triangle or pointy rock to him thinking they were stone arrowheads or spearpoints. In like 6 years of occasionally doing this, we only found one actual arrowhead...
I had one tell me one time that the radiation given off by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs made all carbon dating inaccurate because it saturated everything on earth with radiation. I asked wouldn't that throw off dating closer to the point of impact and leave outlying areas with little to no effect? I was told that's ridiculous because the asteroid would have irradiated the planet so much that it would be nearly indiscernible regardless of where everything was
I was told that the climate was different and the Earth was essentially like a big greenhouse with more oxygen or some shite prior to Noah’s Ark which is why there were giants and other animals that were able to get so big like the dinosaurs
Yeah, I think it largely comes down to how much AM radio they’ve consumed. I had some coworkers at an old job that were like this. From what little I’ve seen of them, they went really fucking off the deep end after Covid, which didn’t really come as much of a surprise.
Tjitso
Knowing the conditions would have had to be quite perfect for preservation, I'm always wondering how many amazing creatures we will never be able to discover
SomebodythatIusedtonope
jetah
neat, take this upvote1
JasonMacza
a T-Rex left his Horror(group of Trex) and went south from Alberta
SubiBryant
Anyone have that clip of Dr. Grant obliterating that chubby kid with the raptor claw?
Gruesslibaer
SubiBryant
That'll do. Gratsi!
RooGryphon
A gient bird once walked here
TheSlouchOfBethlehem
I was going to say it can't have gotten far, but it's been a while now
tinydog
SirSage
Oh hey is that a Bass Pro Shop?
CapttainKillJoy
ProficientInGifs
Hold up, you’re telling me T-Rex was only 12 to 13 feet tall!? like the size of my Home Depot skeleton??? why did I think they were like 50 ft
GrimleyGraves
#1 I've played enough video games to recognize a quest direction marker when I see one.
16KTS
Dinosaur was here.
LurkingSarcasm
I'll be honest, if I saw that while hiking I'd say, "Wow! That rock looks a lot like a dinosaur footprint!" And not actually believe it was for a second. Makes me wonder.
69Voltage
Right? I wonder how many things like that we’ve hiked right by over the years
Zetor
wonder around in the wilderness?
LurkingSarcasm
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1MmxlNTA5cDM4ZmFjamttbXUyYWttZHdlcWprNnZqcHJiM2s2bzNqbyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/5DojNe9J3QbEdU4qOQ/200w.webp
DeviousWay
When I was stationed in Oregon, I found a huge brass thing on the beach once that was so large I couldn’t unbury it and thought, hey, wouldn’t it be cool if this was a bell from a shipwreck?
Half a year later a storm washed away the beach and uncovered a shipwreck.
https://www.heraldnet.com/2008/02/12/oregon-storms-uncover-ship-lost-to-time/
ayers231
We used to do the opposite when I was a kid. My dad's friend worked at a history museum, in the Native American dept. We would bring just about any triangle or pointy rock to him thinking they were stone arrowheads or spearpoints. In like 6 years of occasionally doing this, we only found one actual arrowhead...
LurkingSarcasm
Oddly, I have a cousin in NY that can walk out in any plowed field and come back with a handful of them. He has so many.
magictouch
I thought it was the fossils of an upvote.
cytherians
Creationists who believe the Earth is less than 7,000 years old, be like
Pruvyxcz
It's just so crazy the footprint wasn´t disturbed by the people who were alive during that time /s
tricerabottom
They’ll just tell you how dinosaur bones were planted by satan to make you question your faith of their (one, true) god.
SneakyTrojan
How fucking convenient
Zanzetuken
More often I hear that god put them there, to make the earth seem already lived in or whatever. /shrug
wazeewa
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain
cytherians
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) was a brilliant writer and philosopher!
jayman0123
I had one tell me one time that the radiation given off by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs made all carbon dating inaccurate because it saturated everything on earth with radiation. I asked wouldn't that throw off dating closer to the point of impact and leave outlying areas with little to no effect? I was told that's ridiculous because the asteroid would have irradiated the planet so much that it would be nearly indiscernible regardless of where everything was
ProficientInGifs
I was told that the climate was different and the Earth was essentially like a big greenhouse with more oxygen or some shite prior to Noah’s Ark which is why there were giants and other animals that were able to get so big like the dinosaurs
tricerabottom
Yeah, I think it largely comes down to how much AM radio they’ve consumed. I had some coworkers at an old job that were like this. From what little I’ve seen of them, they went really fucking off the deep end after Covid, which didn’t really come as much of a surprise.