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Post by Infinity Blade on Sept 21, 2019 17:09:32 GMT 5
Because...Illuminati!!! Or something.
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Post by theropod on Sept 21, 2019 17:31:07 GMT 5
I think cultural marxists are probably to blame.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 9, 2019 21:09:14 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 23, 2019 7:27:24 GMT 5
In the 16th century, people found a supposed unicorn horn in the Bühler. It was placed in the choir aisle of St. Michael, where it apparently remains to this day ( link).  As you can see, it's really a mammoth tusk. |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 27, 2019 2:09:29 GMT 5
This weird Coniacian fish, Martinichthys, supposedly rammed its face into small oyster shells and ate the crushed remains (okay, we're not entirely sure what its snubbed nose was really for, but it's one suggestion by a paleontologist for what it's worth).
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Post by kekistani on Dec 27, 2019 6:10:47 GMT 5
Why does that "lamb" look like a dog?  Lambs actually have long tails, so that could be adding to the illusion. |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jan 4, 2020 0:04:11 GMT 5
When I was looking up bite marks on Leedsichthys, I found a book that was basically a fossil behavior compendium-> (indeed, that's the book's title!). Something I found interesting was a picture tuna centrum ( Thunnus) punctured by billfish. This dates to the Early Pliocene (from the Yorktown Formation) and billfish bills fit perfectly into the hole and holes found in other tuna vertebrae. |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jan 22, 2020 23:49:05 GMT 5
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Post by dinosauria101 on Jan 27, 2020 0:17:27 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jan 30, 2020 2:13:45 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Feb 1, 2020 0:25:38 GMT 5
In 1957, there was a 35 year old woman seen at Women's Clinic University in Graz, Austria with a forefinger where her thumb is supposed to be on each hand. This made the hand bones look resemble bear paws. Her newborn baby looked exactly the same. sci-hub.tw/10.1007/BF00522821(I can't read German, unfortunately; everything I say here was read from one of my college textbooks->) Apparently, she didn't consider this a disability. In fact, she said it helped her play piano more easily. |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Mar 14, 2020 22:53:35 GMT 5
I don't think I posted this before so...I learned a while back that Motty, the only known hybrid between an Asian and African (bush) elephant, had his skin mounted and put on display at the London Natural History Museum. Don't know if they still have him; when I visited almost 3 years ago, I don't remember seeing him.  |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Mar 27, 2020 8:13:15 GMT 5
This was a Christmas card sent in 1880 to the curator of the Manchester Museum at the time (he was, in fact, the first curator of the museum ever).  |
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Post by kekistani on Mar 27, 2020 9:12:08 GMT 5
This was a Christmas card sent in 1880 to the curator of the Manchester Museum at the time (he was, in fact, the first curator of the museum ever). Uh...What the hell is that in the center? A megatherium? |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Mar 27, 2020 17:14:34 GMT 5
This was a Christmas card sent in 1880 to the curator of the Manchester Museum at the time (he was, in fact, the first curator of the museum ever). Uh...What the hell is that in the center? A megatherium? Presumably yes. Back in the olden days scientists hypothesized that Megatherium had a trunk. Must have been debunked a long time ago; even I didn't know this until I saw this image recently.  Image source-> The copyright's definitely expired for this (even says so in the image URL), but just for reference this image appeared in an 1885 book->. |
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