[BadgerBuddies]

Fossils,,,,, *dun dun DUNNNN*

To win, share with me a fun fact about fossils or archaeology in general:)

End Date: 11/20/2024


Username: case
Name: Femur
Gender:DFAB

[♔Voltaire♔]

Username: Voltaire
Name: Cleo
Gender:DFAB
Collar: Your choice!
Prompt: Did you hear that they found a sabre tooth tiger cub, dated to be around 35,000 years old? They found it back in 2020 and finally were cleared for testing. It's super cool to see! It's one of the best preserved specimens we have from that period!

[werepickle]

Username: werepickle
Name: Isla
Gender:DFAB
Collar: artists choice
Prompt:
In 2014, a species from 19 million years ago was discovered. It was a mammal, related to the hippopotamus we know today, and it had large lips—so one of its discoverers, Ellen Miller, named it the Jaggermeryx naida, or “Jagger’s water nymph,” after none other than Mick Jagger.

[le fantome]

username: le fantome
name: eazam
gender: dfab
collar: artist's choice.
prompt: a fossil of a large ant found in wyoming showed that ants were the size of hummingbirds almost 50 million years ago. those were some huge ants !

[Ponification]

Username: Ponification
Name: Fossa
Gender:DFAB
Collar: surprise me
Prompt: First archaeologist in the world
In around 550 BCE, Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire is credited with being the very first archaeologist and historian ever recorded. He conducted excavations on existing temples in Mesopotamia, specifically searching for foundation deposits. (A foundation deposit is the ritual burial of materials under the foundations of buildings.) Nabonidus looked for foundation deposits with the intention of finding details to help him restore these sites to their original plans. On the famed Nabonidus Cylinder, King Nabonidus recorded an account of the excavation and restoration of temple of the Akkadian Empire ruler Naram-Sin. The Cylinder of Nabonidus is currently housed in the British Museum in London. ©

[literal.swag.]

Username: literal.swag.
Name: beelze
Gender: DFAB
Collar: fossil related!
Prompt:

apparently, about 68 million years ago, there was a giant frog in madagascar that...wait for it....could eat dinosaurs! of course not fully grown dinosaurs, mostly juvenile or hatchlings, but its bite was estimated to exert about the same force as a wolf or female tiger. !

[onion]

Username: onion
Name: bracken
Gender:DFAB
Collar: black!
Prompt:

did you know not everything that dies can become a fossil? in fact most things that die simply decompose! it takes very specific circumstances for something to fossilize. also, fossils are made of rock! not bone! c:

[Lokisaurus]

Username: lokisaurus
Name: Rexy
Gender: DFAB
Collar: Bone colored
Prompt:

While writing Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton was aware that his velociraptors were not accurate to the fossil records found of them, but decided that the closest species to his vision - "Deinonychus" - just didn't sound as cool as velociraptor, so he kept the name and made a note in his novel that the "dinosaurs" were mixed with so much extant DNA that they ended up looking a bit different. A year after Jurassic Park was published, a large portion of previously discarded samples were discovered by James Kirkland, Robert Gaston, and Donald Burge: these samples turned out to be the Utahraptor, which became the new "basis" for the velociraptors when Spielberg adapted the novel to the silver screen.

[arcadia bay.]

Username: green.
Name: Brooke
Gender:DFAB
Collar: artist choice
Prompt: The Ice Man: Ötzi, a naturally mummified man from around 3300 BCE, was discovered in the Alps in 1991. His body and belongings have provided remarkable insights into Copper Age life, including diet, clothing, and health.

[case]

Username: case
Name: femur
Gender: DFAB
Collar: artistic freedom
Prompt: In my opinion, the most interesting archeological artifact is the Antikythera Mechanism. The object was discovered in 1901 amongst the wreckage of a shipwreck. Scientists believe that the object dates back to somewhere between 205 to 60 BCE. Only a third of the original astronomical calculator survives. It is believed that the mechanism was used to predict the movements of the Sun, Moon, and some of the planets decades in advance! To read more about it, please click here for a scientific report.