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I was at the Australian Museum a couple weeks ago, and when I looked at the dinosaur skeletons I realized that one of the most confounding things future paleont
by xxr 4y ago
I was at the Australian Museum a couple weeks ago, and when I looked at the dinosaur skeletons I realized that one of the most confounding things future paleontologists would discover at this sedimentary layer would be all the completely intact giant birds.
- Apocryphon 4y agoAren't those all models made of plaster? If we're talking about the ones stored in museum vaults somewhere- then future species will think the hominids coexisted with those giant avians, possibly as their supplicants or praetorians.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoWow, that's an amazing thought! And then they'll have to come up with some theory like Punctuated Equilibrium, because they'll see these forms haven't changed in 66 million years...
- marcosdumay 4y agoIt's worse than that. They completely disappeared. Just to reappear without a change 66 million years later. (Or, alternatively, what happened would be completely obvious, but I still can imagine our scientific community divided over this and some convoluted explanation.)