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4 months

Last summer I picked up a collection of rainbow obsidian carvings with some intense colors. Some people were asking about them in prior tweets so today I've dropped them all on my etsy here:

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7 months

Taxpayers should not pay for *checks notes* damage to golf courses by native Peccaries

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7 months

Come along with me on my carnage (I mean course) check this morning. What should be one of the most beautiful golf courses in the country is being destroyed by herds of javelina. If anyone has a contact in AZ state govt that can help us find a solution please pass it along.

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7 months

Wait, the golf course is literally surrounded by Coconino National Forest, aka Javelina habitat?

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7 months

Come along with me on my carnage (I mean course) check this morning. What should be one of the most beautiful golf courses in the country is being destroyed by herds of javelina. If anyone has a contact in AZ state govt that can help us find a solution please pass it along.

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6 months

I don’t know if they filmed in Morocco but those certainly look like the Devonian trilobite layers of Morocco

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6 months

Ridley Scott on shooting a sequence where Napoleon’s cannons fire at the Pyramids. “I don’t know if he did that, but it was a fast way of saying he took Egypt.” (Source: )

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2 months

Pro tip: if you don’t know what a mystery liquid is, don’t touch it with your bare hands

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2 months

does ANYONE know what the fuck this stuff that just leaked from my computer is???????

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5 months

Them: why would you pay $79 for a box of used pencils lol Me: because they’re original Eberhard-Faber Blackwing 602’s and I can resell them for $40 a piece

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2 years

@nicolefunke @orchid_grey This is my standard response now

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They caught a lake monster on camera while filming Finding Bigfoot but never aired it because it’s not Bigfoot related

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6 months

What's the wildest lost media story you've ever heard?

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2 years

Unpopular opinion: golf courses are a waste of space and water

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7 months

@SavageOnTheSun Relocate them where? Back to the natural habitat that the golf course is in?

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1 year

Well that’s the most unique labradorite I’ve ever seen

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Future archaeologist: “Here is the clay pipe layer, above it is the cigarette butt layer, and then we have the vape layer”

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21 days

Came to a wild realisation. When mud larking or digging through 19th century tip, you'll find army of discarded single use tobacco clay pipes. Currently accumulating rubbish are, disposable plastic vapes. Over a hundred years. And the people didn't change, just the delivery did.

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4 years

Omg! After I saw my friend’s isopod toy, I went on eBay and ordered a 3 pack from Japan... I didn’t realize they’d be 3 different species!!!

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2 years

I’m pissed off about a lot of things at the moment, but here’s a watermelon tourmaline from Nigeria

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1 year

They really missed out by not calling it a Tea-locanth

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3 months

I wonder if we’re doing natural selection by killing off the slower weaker hogs and creating bigger faster more bullet resistant hogs

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3 months

This is what happens when domestic hogs interbreed with wild hogs . The get larger each generation.

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5 months

@LJACARDS Rare pencil type used by famous animators and composers in the 1950's-1970's. Has an interesting combination of ingredients that allows it to smoothly write twice as much for half the force

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3 years

I was just told that Versailles, Kentucky is pronounced ver-sails

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2 years

Dinosaur decided not to choose violence today

Faine Greenwood

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2 years

When your pleasant day at the beach is interrupted by a velociraptor.

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7 months

@ThoughtsOnMom1 Nope, native

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3 years

Ant Hill garnets from Arizona. These are pyrope garnets mined by ants and deposited on ant hills. They are then collected by the Navajo and sold to gem cutters. #MineralMonday

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2 years

A 425 gram chunk of Libyan Desert Glass. An impact glass from some kind of meteor impact or air burst in the eastern Sahara 29 million years ago.

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1 year

I feel fossil prep is under appreciated by the general public. The amount of time and skill it takes to free a fossil from rock and make it presentable… fossils do not just pop out of the ground museum-ready

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1 year

Here's a time-lapse of the fossil penguin I found and prepped over the last 5 months. The full video is on my YouTube channel. #fossil #penguin #timelapse #paleontology #newzealand

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3 years

I thought this was a sauropod

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3 years

@PermianLandman Meanwhile in China

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4 months

Stop using AI for imagery, especially to talk about science, you could’ve just used one of tens of thousands of free trilobite images online

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4 months

Our new paper uses Bayesian astrochronology to date the origin of trilobites with extreme precision. Read it here:

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1 year

Let's look at a thing on Google Earth, here's Morocco/Western Sahara, do you see that line?

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3 years

my fall plans // the delta variant

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3 years

@sahana_srini Come hang out on geology twitter, here’s my rock with a mineral that looks like bacon

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6 years

My Isopod and Coelacanth tea diffusers arrived. Thank you Japan for being you

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2 years

Hey science conferences: now would be a good time to take a look at where you’re planning your future conferences

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8 months

There’s no Ebola there and the mud is alkaline, not acidic. But yes the Triops will be hatching soon!!!

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9 months

so not only will the people at burning man have to deal with ebola and acidic mud, when the playa at black rock gets wet these fairy shrimp hatch

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2 years

Huh, never heard of this visual phenomena before, could totally be responsible for some ghost sightings

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2 years

My first Brocken Spectre. Creepy to see it out the corner of my eye and think it was someone else moving

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A Triassic fish with a trilobite in its stomach from the Gefälscht formation of Germany #FossilAprilFirst

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6 months

@gunplabrian Morocco has been set up as a filming mecca for decades. With studios, sets, warehouses. Etc. Just easier there for anything desert

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6 months

For reference, here’s the Jebel Issoumour near Alnif where locals dig trilobites following one specific layer for several kilometers. I was there doing research in 2005.

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4 years

GEOLOGISTS UNITE! We must support this idea of LEGO minerals!

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Woah, it’s a fossil of homo floor-esiensis

Dr. Jason Loxton

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This is the craziest paleo story of the year. Hominid mandible in someone's bathroom reno!

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8 months

I find it ridiculous that there are floating islands in lakes in the *checks notes* Wisconsin and they're big enough to have grown ass trees

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8 months

A "floating island" in Chippewa Lake in Wisconsin that locals often have to push into place when it blocks the bridge, the only passage between the eastern and western parts of the lake #BreakingNews

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3 years

Geology is hard on the ego, it’s like, in a few million years there will not be a trace of you or anything you’ve done or accomplished. You’re not even a blip in geologic deep time

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CRAB BRIDGE CRAB BRIDGE CRAB BRIDGE 🦀🌉🦀🌉🦀🌉

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@LetsFishSmarter Migratory crustacean!

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3 years

Volcanos = lots of silica + water = opals Here’s an opal basalt from Honduras

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4 years

Reminder that crinoids are still alive, and supposedly they can detach their stems and run away from predators.

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6 months

For everyone being like “what?”, James BoBo Fay talks about it one some podcasts (ie: ep 566 of The Confessionals) about filming and how there was a huge thing in a Pennsylvania lake that moved fast but the producers had no interest because it wasn’t Bigfoot

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3 years

Mineral cup has started! I’m voting for #sodalite , here’s a pic from a site in Brazil with a sodalite deposit big enough to make slabs. Pic from

Mineral Cup #MinCup

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3 years

ROUND 1 MATCH 1: #MinCup2021 kicks off in a battle of pastels between the purple #Bentorite and the blue #Sodalite . Pick your champion, present your arguments, and vote!

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4 years

I have a geology joke but it’s not gneiss

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2 years

RT if you google and copy the degree symbol because you never remember how to make it using a keyboard

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1 year

Fossil bling! An opalized belemnite from Australia.

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5 months

@blondealex Yup. IIRC the remakes are attempts to remake the formula since the original company was gone for decades by that point

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3 years

The one day a year I bring out my ammonite with soft-body preservation from the Jurassic of Madagascar

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10 months

Was looking at an auction and here’s a reunion booklet… for members of OPERATION PAPERCLIP 😳

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Woah I didn’t realize Morton Salt mined salt 2000 ft under Lake Erie (didn’t realize there were salt layers thick enough to mine). Check out the quality of this halite!

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1) it did not fall into a volcano, meteors are not visible at that altitude, it’s probably 30 miles away in the direction behind the volcano 2) credit the photographer you A-hole 3) pic by

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A meteor fell into the most active volcano in Indonesia, Mount Merapi

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3 years

This is a fun paper, they used synchrotron microtomography (essentially an X-ray powered by a synchrotron) to scan a piece of Triassic dino coprolite (poop) to 3D image all the beetles hanging out inside.

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6 years

Silver coin from 450 BC featuring an Octopus, coin from the Greek city-state of Syracuse.

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4 months

Philip Jacobs, the fossil collector and finder of giant pliosaur, was completely left out of the BBC documentary. This sort of thing happens a lot and discourages collectors from wanting to work with academics and others.

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11 months

One of my acquisitions today from an estate: an Arizona petrified wood table

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2 years

Bacon rock! A rhodochrosite cave collapse breccia from Argentina. Waiting to get this back from polishing

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4 years

Occasionally the Windows log-in page shows me a geological site I've never heard of, for example, the Bungle Bungles of the Kimberley, Australia. Which gets its stripes from bands of cyanobacteria.

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@ravenscimaven This is why I think reality is a bit “loose” or there are things we can’t science quite yet.

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1 year

Time to pretty up the timeline: Boulder opal from Australia. I took this video in Tucson a few years ago

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3 years

Oh hello abandoned display cabinet! You’re coming with me and you will hold many rocks

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Thinking about this Boulder opal from Australia I saw back in 2020. The opal forms in cracks in concretions. This piece probably cost $6000-8000

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3 years

There are plenty of jobs in your field once you get your degree

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2 years

Pleochroism: a optical characteristic of some minerals where it features different colors depending on the viewing angle. This is a specimen of Cordierite or Iolite featuring this phenomena.

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1 year

Another fossil I picked up today, just because it’s pretty. Annularia sphenophylloides, from the Mazon Creek deposits

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@suseopunkt Some erasers were ok. All the current pencils calling themselves Blackwings are not the original nor could they get the mix just right. The original company went out of business a few decades ago and some startups took the name

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@JenLRossman I have been to those layers in person

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Humpback Mountain

Miss Marjorie Regrets 𓅊

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3 months

THE WHALES ARE GAY🥰🥰🥰

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So I want a PhD but don’t actually have a good reason for wanting one. Anyone else had this feeling at some point?

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Got a package from Canada with some damage and a “we apologize for its condition - Canada Post” bag. I joked that it’s Maple Syrup. I sniffed it. It’s Maple Syrup

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Opal deposits in seems and cracks in rocks, so sometimes a proper whack with a rock hammer will reveal a bunch of thin gorgeous opal, as can be seen here in a specimen of Boulder Opal from Australia

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2 years

Paleo twitter will hound you when you call something a “sea dragon dinosaur dolphin”

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These f @ckers will be caught. That’s NPs jurisdiction, it’s federal.

Las Vegas Locally 🌴

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Federal authorities are looking for two men who were caught on video damaging protected rock formations at Lake Mead National Recreation Area last weekend. Who knows these asshats?

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"Red light does not reach ocean depths, so deep-sea animals that are red actually appear black and thus are less visible to predators and prey." - NOAA

Jeff Yang 🫶 FOLLOW ME @ORIGINALSPIN ON THREADS/IG

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Is…there a reason why all merwomen now have to be canonically depicted as having red hair

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3 years

What are you looking at? Slices of diamonds with natural trefoil patterns inside. Extremely rare, likely caused by differences in nitrogen while the diamond crystal was growing. Finally got my hands on some of these.

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Oooooh, this is one of those things I want. Alan Grant’s velociraptor claw is up for auction! The actual screen used one. From Heritage.

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Alright, I've done it, I've created the Geological Advent Calendar: 24 boxes with specimens of minerals, fossils, gems, and more! You know shipping is going to be crazy this holiday season so get it early. $160 with free US shipping:

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How it started. How it is now

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Was opening a mixed bag of rocks I won at auction (there was a variscite I wanted) and noticed one of the rocks had a suspicious pastel color. Pulled out my Geiger counter and yup

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Previously the activity on my LinkedIn: 0 notifications The activity on my LinkedIn after I finished grad school in geospatial intelligence and got published on a military website: a dozen messages from Asian women wanting to be friends

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the first thing they tell you at the cyber academy is if anyone shows romantic interest in you they are a spy 😔

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OMG, I just went to an open house with an Amazonite pegmantite counter! Owner said it cost $10,000 for the slab.

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I just sold a signed book by a physicist, who passed away a decade ago, to a buyer who turned out to be his daughter who’s always wanted a signed book from her father

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Science time! It’s taken me a while to get enough decent sized diamonds for this experiment: Diamonds + UV light + TV remote

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I am touching two planets and a moon at once! Martian meteorite NWA 12269 Lunar meteorite NWA 11273 Standing on the planet Earth

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Ah now this is a fake pallasite. They’ve been making a lot of these in China where they mix earth sourced olivine into melted metal and then cut slices of it. You can tell by the angular olivine, even distribution, and lack of etching in the metal.

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Just procured THE MOST incredible meteorite slice Pallasite, Kenya Can’t wait to make something fun with this

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1) This is AI art 2) Look in the far background... 3) What does that say about AI?

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okay, this barbie batgirl cosplay did not need to go this fucking hard. #comiccon

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Ah ya, attention seekers claiming a geologic structure is Atlantis, again

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Dear young people: there was a period in the late 90s when high schoolers got really really into swing dancing for some reason.

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Brachiopods survived the K-Pg mass extinction and are still around today

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You have 5 seconds to talk to me 🤐 what would you say? 👇🏻

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Fantastic opalized fossil clam shell from the Jurassic of Coober Pedy, Australia

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While everyone is looking at ham rocks, I feel this is a good time to show off my bacon rock. (Rhodochrosite cave collapse breccia)

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Sometimes a crystal is just like “nah, I’m not gonna grow that way”. For example, this is calcite, which should not look like this

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Some pieces of Ammolite ammonites with possible mosasaur bite marks from the Cretaceous of Canada #fossilfriday

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It freaks me out that people can go hiking and wonder off the trail by a couple hundred feet and boom they’re gone! Lost in the woods! Not found for years or never

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So the surface of this obsidian is actually polished flat, what you’re seeing are ripples underneath the surface. Lush.

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One of my IRL friends on here only has 54 followers and these are two of them.

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@MuseumWeek “Haha, it’s hilarious that the “artist” put their initials on this piece when it’s a poorly done AI generation, like he wants people to think he did any hard work”

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Hey. Hey! Leave desert basins alone, stop trying to flood them. They have their own ecosystems and geology.

Tomas Pueyo

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What if there was a way to: • Mitigate climate change • Create more life • Grow the economy • And make money along the way? Let's call it *Seaflooding*