My grandfather told me about this yesterday. He said something along the lines that they needed helicopters to get where they are to retrieve them.
To which I said: this is the most important discovery about dinosaurs, who would’ve thought they had helicopters!
Didn’t quite land like I had hoped. My transition to Full Dad is complete.
I hereby award you three knee-slaps and a yuk-yuk. Congratulations!
She said finding dinosaur fossils at a high elevation — in this case, 2,000 metres above sea level — is unusual because it means they would have been living there.
The Cascade Range did not exist during the Cretaceous era. Those mountains arose through subduction and volcanism starting around 37 Mya.
Even if there were mountains around, 2K meters is not that high. I used to live in a town at 2500 meters elevation in Colorado.
Black rock around white bone could be volcanic ash or mud buried the bones, then pushed down into the mantle just right, heated it under lots of pressure and cooked it all into rock like a kiln?
Heat and pressure like that would convert that ash into a metamorphic rock and destroy any fossils. Surface rocks don’t get down to the Mantle except through subduction where they are melted and mixed with other melted rocks.
If those fossils were buried in ash or mud, the normal rock-forming processes would have fossilized the bone and converted the ash and much to sedimentary rock. You see the same thing in other fossils bearing rocks like limestone and sandstone.
TIL: "B.C" stands for British Columbia, which despite the name, is neither part of Britain nor near Columbia, but in Canada.
It was a British Crown Colony, hence the British — and the Columbia part is a reference to the [edit] Columbia River Basin which I believe was part of the territory before it ended up in Washington. You may be thinking of Colombia.
[edit] just to drive home the British part the Union Jack is still an official, ceremonial flag of Canada.
"Columbia" was a word used to refer to the New World. It's use shifted over time (sometimes just the tropics, sometimes both continents, sometimes just America, etc).
They did add “Beautiful” before British Columbia on the license plates, so that there is at least one word that gives the best description of the province.
"Sure! I'll call you next week!" -- never to be heard from again.
Everyone seems very unhappy there socially.
Aka “Seattle Nice.”
People move to a place, are eager to get connected, but the people there are already connected…except for all the other lonely newbies. It’s a boom-town phenomenon, I think.
And if you are a long-time resident, it’s a little rich having large numbers of people come clog up your town while doing clueless newbie things and then gripe about how they don’t feel welcome.
Newbies who just moved in are much more likely to leave as well. Why invest the time?
Though in other cities you can make friends much more easily, especially on the East Coast...
Because immigration is not as strong.
I get this all the time in North Carolina. Maybe it’s just a symptom of the times? Most everyone I know under the age of 40-45 would rather commit hari kari than place a short, friendly phone call.
Also, hear me out, maybe it’s us?
That’s normal nice in the Pacific Northwest. Possibly due to the Scandinavian heritage. Another explanation I heard is that people used to be more open there before the many waves of post 90s immigration. Once people there have established their friend groups they’re not looking to add any more to the group as they worry too many new friends will diminish their own place in their friend group.
Scandinavia is similarly dark and gloomy in the winter, I think?
Does the darkness cause this effect in people? Is the darkness a filter for people who are like that already?
I do wonder, could be that for much of human history if you ever saw a foreigner one of you was about to die. PNG blood feuds being a modern example. Perhaps societies with a strong centralized state would evolve a culture open to integrating foreigners. I also wonder how much of modern multiculturalism has its roots in colonial empires.
AFAIK many of the Scandinavians that came to the US were escaping the really bad ethnic / religious stratification and famines.
Subjective, likely false. No sources listed.
I live there, that comment made me laugh because there’s definitely some amount of truth in it. I’ve always described west coast Canada as surface nice, but harder to make friends, while Ontario is surface closed off, but a lot easier to make new friends.
Most fossils we know about come from wetland and marine environments. It's extremely rare to find things for mountains and jungles. Fossils require quick deposition and the right conditions... Exciting stuff.
What were they smoking?
Potosaurus?
It's really interesting to have so many fossils close to the surface, especially in an area with a considerable amount of seismic activity. I always thought earthquakes & the such would serve to disperse fossils rather than pool so many together.