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[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 65 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Technically a fossil is any remnant of an organism or its activities, not just petrified bones.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fossil

But they also said “the fossil”, not “a fossil”, so maybe they were talking about a specific fossil.

[-] Lommy@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

But they also said “the fossil”, not “a fossil”, so maybe they were talking about a specific fossil.

This had me in stitches. Thanks :D

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

If I’m gonna be a pedant, I’ve gotta take it to the extreme.

[-] TxzK@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

I normally hate ultra pedants, but this I can respect

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 months ago

Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article "a" dildo, never "your" dildo.

[-] NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It's okay. Nine times out of ten, it's an electric razor.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Omg the pedentry needs to stop. Specific to what ever fossil is being refered too.

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 27 points 5 months ago

Nothing of the bee remains, but we know it existed from the shape of this flower. It's an idea of what the female bee looked like to the male bee... as interpreted by a plant.

[-] NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

One of my favorite xkcd's

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

Based.

Carved in stone.

[-] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Sometimes, original material does survive fossilization.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 6 points 5 months ago

At least, older than our words.

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

Neolithic, but not too neo; mostly just lithic.

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Wait, what does this mean? I genuinely thought fossils were the bones, preserved through lack of oxygen

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 16 points 5 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zBzDfvvdgA

Fun facts, we know next to nothing about dinosaurs that lived in jungles or mountains due to preservation conditions. They just disappear and do not get buried fast enough. We know the most about wetland dinos because those tend to have better conditions (e.g. bogs) to preserve things.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 14 points 5 months ago

Humanity's closest living relatives, the Chimpanzees, live in forests. They diverged from our lineage 6.5-7.5 million years ago, and there are almost no fossils for them. Except for a statistical fluke, someone studying solely the fossil record could be excused for thinking that they never existed at all... but they do!

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

Love me a good bog…

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Hey, that's not fun!

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Petrified forest are not trees that turned to stone. Petrified forests are trees covered in mud or something that hardened, then tree rotted away and the hollow(in the mold of the tree) was filled in by another type of rock, creating a something that looks like a petrified tree.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oddly we needed to create the idea of poetry first to make that metaphor work.

[-] MetalMartin@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 5 months ago

That's really good!

this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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