the sky is filled with strange phenomena as of late

ammonites

The cast skull our Collections Assistant Susanne is shown holding belongs to Lestodon armatus, a large ground sloth that lived in South America during the Pleistocene Epoch. #DYK Lestodon was one of the largest ground sloths, reaching the size of an Asian elephant?

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A white Goniatite fossil on a dark shale background. The shells of these ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus tend to preserve well in the fossil record and there are millions of them scattered through the rock layers in the Cliffs of Moher. County Clare, Ireland.

as ammonites evolved throughout the palaeozoic and mesozoic, their suture patterns (pictured below) became more and more complex, forming branching lobes that are almost fractal. one of my favourite patterns in nature!

this is so cool I wish I looked like that

We finally get to La Chimera, which is the best film about Italy in the 80s which is also about the menace, closeness & utter strangeness of the ancient past while also featuring a top British lead giving a brilliantly moody & comic performance that you will ever see

Dealing with their absence is worse

i just bought stardew valley (long overdue purchase) so if anyone has it and wants to play lmk!

Mr. Bean’s Holiday is genuinely the correct answer

Working on something else

Wow…

wandering about

This young Allosaurus encountering a crocodile by James Gurney may not be accurate(true crocodiles like this hadn’t evolved yet), but it’s certainly a stunning piece…

#WFH

I do my best to make insightful videos on the science of prehistoric animals and I get swamped by questions like this. Will still answer them though ofc. Love it tbh.